"You can be a nonbeliever and still appreciate the words and the overall message of religious texts. If you don't feel Jesus is the son of God you can still respect who he was and what he represented, especially when you look historically at the time period he lived in."

Dwalin/Dude....exactly. Pride makes the majority not believe in this though. Simply because of the overwhelming inability to compromise by the majority. Borne out of years of indoctrination, and more recently, a strengthened need to "believe" because of the global spread/threat of islamic fundamentalism (and no doubt atheism!)