re: Atheism

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You can’t escape your heritage. Your ancestral religion is basically in your DNA.

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Wait, so how can it be that there was such a shift in religion across the planet from 33 to 500 AD and then beyond?

You’re comparing a 460+ year sample to a 1,500 year sample. Thats kind of my point.

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Atheism is the faith that something somehow came from nothing.

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Most believe that matter and energy can neither be created or destroyed.

Theists (some) believe God speaks things into being, so it is theists who generally believe something came from nothing, just fyi.

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they believe nothing exists

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Some don’t believe in a deity. Some don’t believe in the deities of the world religions while not excluding the possibility of other cosmic powers.

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Say, man-made climate change. Lots of people believe in that and lots don’t. I don’t. The people who do believe in it are called Idiots and those of us who don’t are just ….people.

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But they would call you a “climate change denier”. What’s so hard to get about labels? And get it right so you sound a little more intelligent- it’s “anthropogenic climate change”.

I’m a nonconformist to any mainstream religion.

I think there’s some people who want to be labeled and some that don’t care.

It’s usually not a choice any way because a label is something someone else puts on you.

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So your heritage comes with its faith which for most people goes back as far as can be traced. It’s ingrained in your value system generationally. You can’t escape it

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I see.

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The scientific consensus is that the universe came into being in an instant from a singularity

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Wrong. The universe began to expand from an infinitely small point.

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It has been mathematically proven that our universe cannot have existed past eternal. Look up the Borde–Guth–Vilenkin (BGV) theorem.

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That’s a mathematical theorem based on a bunch of assumptions. It’s not a scientific theory or even a hypothesis and isn’t accepted amongst scientists to lend evidence to the universe having a beginning or popping into existence from nothing.

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In a singularity matter, space, and time are, mathematically speaking, infinitely compressed, which is to say that they don't exist

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No scientists I know of state that matter and energy didn’t exist. Yes they were compressed and it began to rapidly expand.

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Theists/deists conclude from the available information that Something with volition that existed apart from the universe decided to cause the universe to explode into being.

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Might be true for some. But a good Bible believer will believe the earth is 6000 years old and that God spoke it into existence.

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Atheists conclude that the universe created itself.

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Absolutely not. Try to understand what you’re talking about before spouting misinformation. We believe matter and energy always existed and that it began to expand rapidly. The mechanism or cause may be unknown, but we don’t presuppose that a supernatural deity existing outside of time and space did it.

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Both groups agree that it was created out of nothing.

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Wrong. This is another example of trying to project your own faults onto atheists, in the same line claiming atheists have faith and that atheism is a religion.