Okay, I came up with this little narrative that I think more or less sums up most of my problems with Christian beliefs. I'd be interested to see some responses from both sides on this. I don't want to offend anyone with the tone of this, and that isn't my intention, what my intention is, is to show how I percieve these things. This is how I think of them, and I'm not trying to make fun of people, so if you are offended I apologize, but please respond to this in regards to my perception of these views rather than my attitude about them.

Christian Beliefs As I Have Been Made To Understand Them
God is a non-physical being that can do anything and is perfect. God never makes mistakes, knows everything that will ever happen, and knows everything that everybody thinks and does. After an eternity of sitting in nothingness, God suddenly gets the idea that he should create a universe, so he creates a universe and fills it with countless stars and planets. He then decides that he should put some life in this universe. He then crams every form of biological organism he can imagine onto a single planet, and after that says "I should put some people here too. Yeah, people, I'll put them here, and I'll make them imperfect so that they have faults, and then I will punish them for these faults. I'll make it so that they can never understand me and the only way for them to not be punished is if they are forced at a young and susceptible age through fear to believe in me, since there is no logic in believing in me and no free-thinking individual would. Even if they do believe in me however, I may still decide to punish them on some outrageous technicality, because I love them. Also, I will put these trees here, and tell the people not to eat the fruit. Since I know everything that will happen, though, I know they will eat them, but I'll still put them there anyway, to test their faith, although I know they will fail, and then if they do eat it, which they will, I better get them out of here quick because if they eat those fruit I will be seriously screwed. Actually, I haven't seen those people around...better go see what's going on...oh, crap, they ate the fruit. All right, that's it. Now everybody forever gets punished, because that's easier than just giving up on my universe idea and sparing everyone."
Years down the road...
"All right, after thousands of years of punishing you, I decided you can kill my son. Which is murder. If you break this commandment I have made for you, then you'll be saved. Well, hopefully. Because you'll still have to do a lot of other things after that, I mean, I love you and I want to forgive your sins, but I can't just do that. Naturally I already know which of you will do the right things and go to Heaven, I knew that before you were even created. I sure am sorry that I have to send so many of you poor pre-determined souls that I keep on making to Hell to be punished forever!"
Then perhaps someone asks God, "but God, if you love us, and want to take away our sins, can't you just do it?"
"Nope. Sorry, my hands are tied."
"By?"
"..."
THE END