No. First of all, the practice was widespread to nearly all religious cults, by no means limited to Jews. Second, I'm suggesting that gods/elohim and what not spiritual powers by any word you want, were no more pleased with the attention grabbing and pleading practice of animal sacrifice, they were fed up with all the unnecessary suffering of sentient beings and ordained and organized what Badiou calls "Event", to spread the new spiritual truth in the social sphere, based on the goal oriented principle of whatever works.
Maybe gods did that at least partly affected by imbecillic (by Athenians) and noble - on part of Socrates - sacrifice of the latter, which gave the effective birth to the philosophical revolution that started about half a millennia before the zeitgeist in question. The case of Socrates is historically well documented, and in many ways the stories around Christ imitate the case of Socrates. Jews had been part of Hellenistic world for a long time. It was a good story already known to work well, in the spirit of what ever works.
Situation with renewal of animal sacrifice and torture by modern scientism is very different. It is not founded on any spiritual pact, it's purely atheistic as well as anti-philosophical, as it denies also gnothi seauton, the foundation Socratic philosophy, as well as Buddhist science of meditation, etc. etc., because the thick empathy barriers and blind unawareness of scientism would not be sustainable with a modicum of self-awareness.
Forgive them for they are not aware.