Faith > Religion AND Faith =/= Religion. There are things that Christianity (the religion) sometimes teach that have nothing to do with Christian faith because faith is an indefinable sense or feeling and religion is like taking a machete to it. People gain faith or an insight or understanding and then spend most of the rest of their time trying to prove it right, or putting rules and limitations on it so that we can understand it and so we can make other people agree with us.
Jesus didn't want people to go to hell, he wanted us to have a relationship with Him. Again, I'm not pretending to be a theologian but from what I've read of the New Testament Jesus very rarely mentions hell. He mostly dealt with problems that we have as being humans keeping us from a relationship with Him. One of the problems he talked about was that in the Old Testament people thought: "I have to do A, B, and C, or I am going to hell," and He tried to change that perception, but now a majority of Christians think "I have to believe A, B, and C, or I am going to hell," or even worse evangelicals: "You have to believe A, B, and C or you are going to hell."
I'm just trying to say that there are a lot of misconceptions about Christianity because (some) evangelical Christians preach what I call the "gospel of death" (believe this or you're going to hell) instead of the gospel of truth or love. If you look at Christian forums a good portion of it is talking about hell, but why should Christians be so concerned about hell? My guess it's that we are afraid of being wrong, and what religion teaches is if you're wrong you're going to hell. I think if people would believe in their faith more (a personal experience) than in religion (human's trying to define faith) Christianity would be a lot less... scary.
And to say that I'm a Christian and believe in God doesn't mean that I don't believe in science. I believe in God but I also believe in people and it's truly amazing what we've accomplished as a human race and it would be stupid to say that all science is wrong and demonic. I saw a guy on a local television station here trying to prove that God exists by disproving that science is valid, but again he's just one of the guys that has missed the point and the only reason he's on tv is because people love to see their beliefs reinforced by other people.
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