If you are asking in terms of possibly converting, I submit "Is it true?" is a good question to use. ("Is it good?" and "Is it beautiful?" are not bad supporting questions.)
If you are asking in terms of a religion that you will not convert to, but have to live around people that adhere to that religion, then I submit "How does that religion teach its adherents to treat unbelievers?" is a good one. And this does cover those who are unbelievers because they have not chosen to join, unbelievers because they have explicitly rejected, and unbelievers who used to believer and have left.
And not how does it say unbelievers will be treated by G-d, angels, etc. but how *followers* are instructed to treat unbelievers. If I do not believe in a religion, then I do not believe in the supernatural beings that that religion describes or at least I do not believe that those supernatural beings act the way that religion describes. However, no matter what I believe the adherents of a religion *do* exist, so it is the instructions for the adherents that I am concerned with.
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