What if God punishes faith, and only rewards skepticism? We can play "what if" all day...
How do they explain the atheists who have never set foot in churches, never had any Christian upbringing, that have had been clinically dead, and are revived after brain death, and recount being in the most awful place they’ve ever been, with fire and heat and pain and seeing others there in pain and torment? And that talking with others realize that the place they actually went to, was Hell?
They would explains it the following manner:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/keith_augustine/HNDEs.html
As I say rationalization is the second greatest human drive.
The “what if” I mention can be answered, btw. Not just a hypothetical.
People will always find a way to not believe something, if they don’t want to. Despite evidence. They rip the evidence, they rip how it’s presented, or who’s presenting it, or name call, or just shout various catch phrases.