Meanings of uncaused cause in English

Nothing daunted, the religionist then insists that nothing can exist without a cause, except cause, and that this uncaused cause is God.

But at the point where science bleeds into metaphysics, some have started sounding surprisingly like Thomas Aquinas banging on about the " uncaused cause".

Taken absolutely, it is Being, the Soul, God; the uncaused Cause of all the states which, in beings, we call states of consciousness.