We look at the movements of body in the sky, we find that they are pretty clearly expanding, and given that if we assume that this has been going on for a long time (and there's very little reason to believe otherwise given what we know about physics), we can clearly see that there must have been a moment in time where everything was much closer together, up to an infinitely small point... this is basically what Big Bang says. Can you please tell me what religious origin there may be in this??
Big Bang model was originally formalised by Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics Georges Lemaître.
Expansion of our local group of galaxies is coincidence. We are falling into Big Attractor, which falls into Shapley attractor, so our local group of galaxies is stretched.
> Expansion of our local group of galaxies is coincidence. We are falling into Big Attractor, which falls into Shapley attractor, so our local group of galaxies is stretched.
Wow that's some really shady stuff... you're talking about the actual Local Group, part of the Virgo Cluster? Do you know that the Local Group is not actually expanding?? It's predicted it'll stick together in the far future, while other parts of the visible Universe shift away from us. It's even been calculated that the Virgo Supercluster's enormous gravity slows down recession of the Local Group from the cluster by approximately ten percent[1].
No, it's not about Local Group. It's about Local Supercluster, Perseus–Pisces Supercluster, and so on, which are attracted by Shapley attractor, but stretched into different directions.
Humans are curious. We've always wanted to know what those little dots of light in the sky are.
We used to make up stories to explain them... but now we don't have to, we can figure it out using our knowledge of matter and physics, make predictions to check whether those are correct, basically the scientific method... religion is not necessary to explain why we look at the sky, nor why we feel we have to be decent people for that matter, or why we would like to know where everything came from and where we're going. Simply being consciuous and rational and curious is enogh for all that.
Stop assuming bad faith and stick to the point.