The infinite regress?

Question

Why do the religious love to use the "cause and effect" argument all the time? i.e. "every effect has a cause", they then go back and say the universe had to have a cause, and that cause was a sky fairy. Well what makes the sky fairy the truncating factor in this infinite regress? Why is this fictitious character not also subject to a cause? I'm curious how many people will say time does not bind god, or that he works outside time...ha, what a cop out. But seriously, why do you feel a sky fairy has to be the truncating part of the regress? Why will you not even consider the possibility that something made your god, and I would postulate that humans created god.

Answer 1

I like that term "sky fairy." I might use it in some of my answers.

Answer 2

Cool! I'm giving you the first answer!!!!!!!!