I have one thing to add to this "conversation." There have been some good points made by both sides which I had never considered before, and I'll be doing a lot of thinking.
But, one of the main things that really keeps me away from Christianity is this:
According to Christians, everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus goes to Hell. This was brought up earlier. A reference to the inhabitants of some jungle village in Zimbabwe was brought up. This is what bothers me. There are many many religions, and in the history of the world, Christianity is a very young one. (Unless you are under the false impression that the earth is only a few thousand years old, in which case I suggest you open a science book and read something for once.) So, that means that everyone who lived before Christ went to Hell, correct? And everyone in the world who has never heard of him is going to Hell. They never had a choice to accept him or not. They have a religion, which they accept as true just as Christians accept their own as true, and by their believes they will be saved and go to their notion of "heaven." Are you saying they are going to be severely dissapointed when they die when they end up in Hell? They will be punished for something that is not their fault. They'll die and end up in Hell saying "But I did everything God wanted me to! Why am I being punished?"
This quite simply seems like human reasoning to me, in order to make people convert to your own religion. My personal belief is that if there is a God, it doesn't matter what religion you belong to as long as you acknowledge he exists. To me, Mulsims, Christians, even those who worhsip many gods, all believe in the same God, just in different forms. Many of you Christians seem to ignore this, and spit venom at anyone who does not follow your exact beliefs. You automatically say "You must accept Christ" because that is what you have done. Muslims say "You must accept Mohammed" or whatever they say (i'm pretty ignorant about Islam, so if someone wants to correct me, feel free.) Perhaps both are correct, or perhaps both are wrong. The situation of one being right and the other wrong is impossible. I truly don't see how one religion can be right, out of all the thousands of religions over this planet, many of which have been around longer than Christianity.
Christianty is just a phase, just as the polytheist beliefs of the Greeks and Romans (or did they not exist?) I think Arthur C Clarke made an excllent prediction in his book 3001: the Final Odyssey. I won't spoil the surprise, for those of you interested, may I suggest you crack open a book other than one which directly supports your devout spoutings and listen with an open mind? Of course, this book isn't going to change anyone's mind; it's not meant to. I just think his predictions are a good solution.