James Madison, the creator of American freedom of religion, understood it completely: ...the mind prefers at once the idea of a self-existing cause to that of an infinite series of cause & effect, which augments, instead of avoiding the difficulty; and that it finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom & goodness, than to the self-existence of the universe, VISIBLY DESTITUTE OF THOSE ATTRIBUTES, and which may be the effect of them. In this comparative facility of conception & belief, all philosophical Reasoning on the subject must perhaps terminate. (emphasis added). Cosmic horror strikes again. churchstatelaw/historicalmaterials/8_7_16.asp
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