without dragging all the arguments back up... has anyone taken into account that the whole christian belief system is based on hundreds of years of people (usually an 'educated' minority in charge of the uneducated majority) using, and often abusing, a book that has been rewritten/mistranslated more times than we've all had hot dinners.
now, i have no great affity with any side of this argument, but people seem to put alot of faith in what can only be described as the longest game of chinese whispers in human history.
i think the bible is full of some very wise guidelines for how a moral society should function, but it is very difficult to fully trust/take as law the ideas and teachings that have had so long and so many people to corrupt them.
belief systems can be seen to change and evolve in the same way that animal species do. christianity has thrived through being misused by those in society with the power/education/influence.
heres a little known fact for you, when newton discovered that white light was made up of the 'colours of the rainbow' he classified 6 colours, red/orange/yellow/green/blue/violet. as 6 is the devils number, the church made him add a colour, indigo, so that the rainbow had 7 colours, 7 being a holy number. we are still taught that the rainbow has 7 colours even though it was a lie forced by the church.
food for thought...