Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.

[Pat Mustard]

Also, the cosmological argument is self-defeating. If a god can exist without a prior cause, then why can't the universe?

This is one of the classic refutations that I just don't think it holds.

A god could come to existance without a prior cause because he would be able to do godlike shit like creating himself or some other magical and non-sensical stuff that natural things just can't do (or at least wouldn't be reasonable to expect they would)

While an universe coming into existance without a prior cause doesn't really make sense (not saying its impossible but I just don't think it would make any sense for it do suddenly come into existance)

Yeah, but what makes a god so special that it can exist outside the sum total of our reality? You see, as soon as you try to explain god as a special case you're automatically back in magical pixie dust land.