Do atheists believe everything came from nothing?

The only people who claim that "something came out of nothing", are creationists. I hate religion just as much as you do Why do you assume that just because I don't believe in a deity, that I "hate religion"? I'd consider myself an agnostic rather than an atheist.

The two terms aren't mutually exclusive. Agnosticism is the assertion that the existence of deity is unknown and unknownable. Atheism means not holding a belief in the existence of deity.

Since you're implying that universe must have had a deity, then you're not an agnostic. It just doesn't make sense to me how the universe could suddenly "pop" into existence without a grand designer Like many uneducated creationists, you set up a false dichotomy here: either it popped into existence on the command of a deity, or it popped into existence my no other means. The reality is that it didn't "pop" into existence.

You're also assuming that time is constant and Newtonian, and that the universe already existed before it existed in order to have some existence to "pop" into. You might want to read up on Einstein and the discoveries of physics from the past, oh, 100 years. But even if we assume your assumptions about the universe are correct (and they aren't, as scientific evidence shows), this begs the question of how your "grand designer" managed to pop into existence from nothing.

If you're going to fall back on "well he always was here" or "he's beyond our understanding", then that's no better than assuming the universe was always here. In short, bringing a deity into the picture doesn't actually answer anything. It's a baseless assertion that gets us nowhere in understanding things.

A lot of you are claiming that you "don't know" which I completely agree with. That doesn't make you an atheist, though. That makes you an agnostic.

Again, you're wrong. Not knowing the origins of the universe does not make one an agnostic, nor an atheist. Atheism means not having a belief in the existence of deity, and agnosticism is asserting that we can't know of deity existence one way or another.

You keep making the stupid assumption that the two and only two choices are "believe in the existence of a deity, and know that the deity created everything" or "don't believe in a deity, and still know how the universe was created".

The universe was not made from nothing. The energy that created it has always existed, just how theists claim that god has always existed. The only problem is theists falsely call this energy God and say it is intelligent and all powerful and such.

The fact of the matter is that it is not. It is simply energy. Therefore the universe did not come from nothing.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred. This proves as a fact that the energy to make the big bang was always there and is eternally there. Only temporal (non eternal) things need a creator.

The universe created itself basically.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.