1. Atheism - Everything did not come from nothing
The strawman argument posed by atheists is "which god"? It's their giggly gotcha, so they think.
I have never seen anyone offer the answers I am about to give until now.
1. How many "gods" created the universe?
2. How many "gods" were necessary to create the universe?
3. Which God did America's Founding Fathers worship and refer to four times in our Declaration of Independence?
4. What God provided a book beginning with a science lesson of the Big Bang ("In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.") It was not verified by science for two thousand years.
1. How many? Why should anyone accept the claim that your gods or anyone else's gods created anything?
2. How many? Why should anyone accept the claim that any gods were necessary?
3. The Declaration of Independence is not a legal document with respect to the laws of the United States. It has already been argued and long admitted that the concept of men's religious beliefs were part and parcel of the founding of the country. However, the wording in the
Constitution is clearly meant to encompass numerous beliefs, extant at the time, to cover the general consensus of beliefs. Hence, deist terms like "Creator" and "Nature's God", "divine Providence" and the quite evident lack of reference to Jesus and Yahweh (despite robust debate to include them). The closest reference is to a "Supreme Judge", but of course that could be Amon Ra, couldn't it?
It's a given that all things men do spring from their beliefs, which may be varied and complex, but what is asserted by Christians is that the Nation was founded
exclusively under Judeo-Christian beliefs, and that is a patent lie. At the outset, neither liberty, pursuit of happiness, democracy, or republicanism has
anything to do with Judeo-Christianity, both of which would instill theocracies (and as such are by definition dictatorships), but instead these were the hallmarks of the "pagan" belief systems of the Greeks and the Romans.
The D.O.I. is a stirring document, its importance is acknowledged, but it is not the legal basis for the nation nor how the nation functions or what its limits are. That is, has been, and always will be the
Constitution, and all arguments regarding what the nation is permitted to do is contained within that document (with a nod to expansion vis a vis constitutional amendments).
4. Your gods provided no books. The Bible was written by men with no editing or preambles provided by any gods. Two thousand years later. has science verified talking snakes? Has science verified a global flood or supernatural events?