It amazes me how many Christians refer to nonbelievers as evil, atheists and even as the recipients of hardened hearts. To these believers, God has hardened their hearts and won’t let them see the light.

Wait a minute, a loving God wouldn’t do that. God didn’t harden their hearts, the devil did or was it the individuals themselves. God is a loving God, like most Christians, even though some of these people are judgmental and uninformed.

I really don’t know why some people will take the time to do scientific and academic research about a topic like religion, while others won’t. The only thing I can think of is that God has hardened their brains somehow. Remember, we can always blame stuff like this on the devil, demons or some other evil force, to protect the creator.

By hardening their brains, Christians live in a world that’s protected by an impenetrable shield. This magic shield reduces the amount of knowledge about the truth, while providing them with a dreamlike fantasy world to live in that’s full of problems, while offering them hope of an eternal life after death.

I don’t really know how to get Christians and other religions all over the world motivated, to examine the missing facts about their religious beliefs and doctrine. You need to quit blaming people like me, atheists and other nonbelievers about our lack of knowledge, when most of the time, all we’re doing is providing you with facts, supported with satisfactory scientific evidence.

Here is a small list of facts that you should examine, if you believe in any religion.

1. Were you raised to believe in your religion and never question your beliefs?

2. How many generations before you, believed in your religion and never questioned their beliefs?

3. Are you religiously geographically challenged, in other words, were you raised in a community of like-minded religious believers?

4. Have you done any type of research into other religions?

5. If your religious beliefs are right, does that make other religious beliefs wrong?

6. Did your god create everything and does this really make a lot of sense to you?

7. Why would your God create a wonderful world, but allowed greed, starvation and ignorance?

8. Why wouldn’t your God destroy every nonbeliever and eliminate the competition?

9. Are your religious books full of deception, contradictions and inerrancy?

10. Do you believe everything that others tell you and then spread these rumors unto others, without taking the time to do any research with an open mind?

I’m not writing this article to be cruel, I’m writing this article to get people motivated to do a little research about their religious beliefs with an open mind. Why would you want to spend the rest of your life believing in something that might not be true?

Your journey to the truth starts by asking the right questions.