The Deist and His God of Happiness

If everything has its cause and creator, then what caused and created God? Perhaps God is the only thing that lacks a cause, which is why He is God in the first place -or at least that is what R. W. Mecklenburg thoughtfully proposes in The Deist, his short but sweet deconstruction of God, reason, happiness, and liberty. God, Mecklenburg says, is the only thing that has always existed without creation. The only immutable thing without change. Absolute without degree. And universal without excepti