Nothingness

[The Reality Salesman01]

I've been on plenty of Christian sites, you're right, they don't say harsh words towards each other. Most of the posts are bible scriptures and people just agreeing with each other. In fact they discourage debate, topics and even questions that may lead to any fundamental monotheistic principles being intellectually challenged whatsoever. Different ideas or perspectives are not welcomed even in the most respectful or cordial form. In fact, they're blocked and deleted by mods, but while you wait, the members will bombard you with condemnations to hell and eternal torture. If you don't believe in God or if you believe in more than one, you're ignored and silenced. So,you being Muslim explains why you found it more pleasurable. You believe in one God, and they rationalize that by convincing themselves that what you call Allah is actually their God, and they believe you to be slightly misguided, but at least you're on the right track. The kind ones judge you within there circles, we like to throw the challenge right a cross the plate.

Here, lucidity is all that matters. We're all adults and if you (not you specifically, but generally speaking) wanna come in here waiving any banner of special knowledge, you better be ready to explain yourself, and you're backed into a corner without a logical thought to defend yourself with, the respectful and lucid thing to do among atheist, or anybody that is champion of logic, is to either keep your belief to yourself or recognize when logic no longer supports your claim and concede that fact. Any judgmental threats based on a superstition yet to be justified by reason or plausibility, will be dealt with in the manner you describe as unique to Atheists. That being said, with regards to the OP, I don't know you, but I will respect you and give you every benefit of the doubt as being a fantastic person that just happens to believe something that I don't (please keep in mind that its not the other way around too, please), and I would be happy to answer any questions you have.

It is absolutely absurd to claim that the universe came from nothing. Why?

Define nothing? 0 and infinity are equally impossible to correlate with reality. They are words used to illustrate concepts. Anyone claiming to have knowledge of true nothingness or infinity, is simply mistaken. It's much more accurate to say: I don't know.

Its a creative liberty to take words and assign meaning to them based on possible applicability within a subject. Atheist- Not a theist. That's all.