I would like to impress upon my irrational theist and non-atheist friends and foes that I'm as upset, perturbed and disgusted, as a rational atheist, at having to believe in a Bang that was Big as they could ever possibly be:

What the hell good is a universe that is less than infinite in all directions?  And what is all this caca about "Dark Matter" and "Dark Forces"?   Even Black Holes, if you ask me, are suspiciously like metaphysical acting-out in a cosmos which is simply refusing to grow up and act like a material reality.  The fact that I believe in such things because I have read and understand the science behind them makes them only slightly more palatable to me than, say, apparitions of Shiva or Kali-Durgha.  Behind it all, something in me is saying, "What utter horse-shit."   Join hands.