Regardless of whether non-fundamentalist Christians emphasize hell or not, it’s still part of scripture. Clearly, those who wrote the books of the New Testament describe Christ as warning people about eternal torment.
So, despite the fact that many Christians, (perhaps most famously Martin Luther King Jr), have said about love being the crux of their faith, there is a problem that likely will be resolved one way or other, depending on the person and the circumstances.
Unless one embraces fundamentalism (and thereby rejects modernity, including many aspects of liberal democracy), one is left with either viewing scripture as a largely symbolic source of divine inspiration or becoming a non-believer.
Barring civilizational collapse or social turmoil that results in theocracy, rationalism—thru the physical and social sciences as well as the humanities—– seems likely to advance further into what was formerly the exclusive domain of theology.
If that body of evidence-based, rational knowledge continues to grow, more of the faithful will either embrace fundamentalism or go further down the path of having a symbolic understanding of scripture. At least for some people, the path of seeing scripture as symbolism likely leads to non-belief sooner or later.
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