Why do the religious assume there was ever a literal 'nothing' that needs a god to make a something out of?

Because everything they "believe" would fall apart if they didn't.

Science explains the big bang was not from nothing but from a singularity that was all the matter and energy in the universe compressed into a single point that then expanded rapidly!

So it was always here!

But why are Christians always claiming the big bang came from nothing? Are they that ignorant? Did they sleep through school or is it that they know the truth but think they can twist it because everyone is gullible?!

Claiming something cannot come from nothing argues not against the big bang but against creationists claims!

Recent research suggests the universe has contracted into a singularity and then expanded a number of times!

Because all physical has a beginning.

even if matter was eternal, it can't make itself into other things, such as living things. But the notion that matter and energy are eternal is absurd.

The universe is space-time-mass/energy continuum. There was no universe, then there was.

Atheists are the experts on nothingness, ask them.

Do you realize how insensibly illogical it is to believe that the universe, physical matter and energy is eternal? That it has always been. If you are willing to abandon natural law so willingly to come up with a way for the universe to exist on its own, then you have just abandoned science and become religious

it also reveals that you know the truth....that something, or someone started it all and that thing or person is eternal.

and we are back to God

you just have a different god

Do you have a degree in quantum physics or cosmology or theoretical physics? Are you a physicist? If not then you are not qualified to discuss this, in my opinion.

Because they're narcissistic retards.

Because without this straw man (which is actually their belief), they can't constantly whine about how stupid our 'beliefs' are (when it is actually their belief).

Agree 100%. Matter/energy can't be created or destroyed, therefore they must have been around, in one form or another, for all of eternity.