God had to be recast as the uncaused cause of the existence of all things contingent and His existence necessitated no cause because He, himself, is necessary.
"Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema"
Sam Vaknin
"Mind can only be caused by Mind," and, therefore, Mind must either be uncaused, or caused by a Mind.
"A Candid Examination of Theism"
George John Romanes
But no one with whom we have to deal questions the fact of our having a moral sense; and to identify this "deliverance of consciousness" with belief in the theory that volitions are uncaused, is, or would now be, merely to abandon the only questions in dispute.
"A Candid Examination of Theism"
George John Romanes