A preponderance of religious believers owe their "faith" system to Gods who were created in order to provide meaning to events which could not be explained by any other means. Among primitive people (and when most of the Western religions were started, we are talking about primitive people) whenever some phenomenon in their lives was encountered that current science couldn't explain, they attributed it to the God(s) (see periodic Nile flooding for example). Once the belief systems surrounding these events became hardened, (see the Great Flood for instance) it is considered heresy by the religious to "question The(tm) Good Book" (see Gallileo for yan example).
I just found it curious to hear anyone castigating a non-believer for "failing to ask questions" given that virtually every major Western religion explicitly or at least implicitly forbids asking questions - after all, to ask questions is to "lose your faith" that the embraced religious text has all the answers.