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Blackadder wrote:

jamest wrote:This is a naive thread in my eyes, as the usual attitude of most theists to this question (including myself), is that God is eternal and thus had no beginning... hence required no cause for its own existence. It wouldn't even make sense for God to be an effect of another cause! I mean, God cannot be 'God' if it's a mere effect of something else. That's why God is consistently defined as the primal cause of everything.

I was under the impression that most atheists were aware of this, hence my judgement that it's a naive thread.

Either eternal existence is possible or it's not. If it is, then God is unnecessary. If it's not, then the question of who made God is relevant. Questioning the special pleading for God by theists may seem naive, but that's because the theists' position is itself naive. I await the barrage of sophistry to show that it is instead an exquisitely reasoned and profound position.