It occurs to me that nothingness...no matter, no energy, no space, no time...might not 'be able' to 'exist'. How could something without time exist for any amount of time? If you allow it to have time, then it necessarily also has space, and then you've got some kind of universe. I think absolute nothingness may be a self-contradictory concept.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.