And again. People still die for prophets who existed a very long time ago. Muhammed is a real guy that existed. 

Also the scriptures about Jesus weren't written until long after he died by people who never met him which calls a lot of those events into question. Ever played chinese whispers?

No, no, no, no, no. 

Sorry.

There is nothing factually true about that statement though.  Paul's letters claiming divinity were written, like, a decade after Christ died and that claimed divinity. And they referenced creeds (that are still used today) that talked about his divinity. This "theory" that was spread by the Dan Brown novel (movie) is not based in fact.

(Sorry to go on a rant. But anyone - scientists and archaeologists included - who look at the facts of this do not agree with it).

I'm just talking in broad terms, not trying to get into the finer details. All finer details does is make people confused and your arguing over semantics versus the general idea.

Whether all the stuff in the universe was packed into a pin prick size or if it was all some giant gas giant the size of the milky way before is exploded/expanded/whatever is besides the point.

The questions are:

1. Where did all that stuff originally come from? Was that matter/energy/ect always there. How can something always be there? Shouldn't there have to be a beginning at some point. How can something have always been? If it was created, how was something created from nothing?

2. What was outside that ball of shit? Nothing? As someone posted to me earlier, no time, no space, no nothing. How can something be nothing. If I was to somehow step outside that ball, I step into nothing? How can time not exist?

3. If the universe is ever expanding, how can it be infinite. Something infinite is infinite. you can't +1 infinity. This isn't elementary school comebacks. So if I were to travel faster than the universe is expanding, what would I run into when I get past it? Again the concept of nothing, no time/space/ect makes less sense than any magical god of any religion.

4. If there is somehow a no time/no space place, then nothing is infinite. I've heard our universe will end at some point, so then nothing inside our universe is infite. Time will end, and as with the big bang, time began at some point. If there is a place of nothing outside our universe, then our universe is not infinite.

Human beings tend to think backward in regards to their position in the universe. We like the idea of grand plans because we are pattern based thinkers, from the way we hunted, to farmed, to built societies using standardized aspects to form culture (language, calendars, currency, etc.) The concept of randomness bothers us because it speaks to possible future randomness and how our entire existence could be snuffed out in an extinction event the way it did multiple times before on our planet. Fossil record show the dinosaurs dominated the planet for millions and millions of years. Homo sapiens in our modern form is roughly two hundred thousand years old, and of that only past ten thousand saw us have complexity to build religions and consider abstract concepts. We know this is something within our minds given how mythology sprouts in cultures all over the globe. We have curious minds seeking resolution so we devise answers based on our best understanding. Magic or deities are quick explanations of mysteries such as stars or seasons our ancestors dealt with. Ask a child and they can give you fantastic, yet incorrect, explanations of how the world works. We are not as inclined to be content with "I don't know?"

Human beings also exploit one another through power structures. Power in and of itself brings the temptation of corruption and abuse. Cults or religions are no exception to this as evidenced in the past and today. In the modern era since the enlightenment we regularly challenge thinking and criticize power structures. How many monarchs still reside today with actual power? Christianity split and fractured having dozens of sects with the Catholic branch being the most powerful and far reaching. Making a work going after Methodists would come across more as a general critique on religion or Christianity, while Catholicism is more specific. Hollywood is a western product that criticizes what it knows and Christianity ruled the west, and still does to certain extent. Hinduism, Sikh, Buddhists, and others don't get this treatment due to demographics and familiarity. I would state Indian artists critical of their society would raise issues about religions and power structures there in the same fashion.

Infinity is a very curious concept in how we define it. Below is a mathematical thought experiment of how infinity can grow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj3_KqkI9Zo

1 answer this and you get a nobel prize :)

2. Space and time are created by the Big Bang.  They have been expanding ever since (mathematically - it doesn’t expand “into something”)

3. Nothing is known to be beyond the edge.  See 2.  Mathematically points become further apart, but it’s not an explosion like you see in a movie with a shock wave.  There isn’t a beyond so to speak.

4  depdnding on the content of matter vs the violence of the explosion, everything may collapse again (Big Crunch).  Good news is that you can say either as no one is going to live long enough to prove it...

It wasn't. It held back the advancement of science and of humans. If someone's ideas threatened the church or their view of the universe, they would kill them. It's widely known. You have google, use it.

I prefer DuckDuckGo.

A big one would be sexual health/behaviour, which extends into family structures.

I guess I took the bait. :)

But good question and something I've tried to read up on, but need to read more on. I could give a semi-coherent answer, but one that would probably be picked apart (and rightfully so), so I'll just admit it's a good question for now. :)

(If you really want to dive into it I can try and explain, but I don't know enough, or can't explain it well enough, to convince anyone)