To a person, the new atheists hold that God is some being in the world, the maximum instance, if you want, of the category of being. But this is precisely what Aquinas and serious thinkers in all of the great theistic traditions hold that God is not. Thomas explicitly states that God is not in any genus, including that most generic genus of all, namely being. He is not one thing or individual -- however supreme -- among many. Rather, God is, in Aquinass pithy Latin phrase, esse ipsum subsistens, the sheer act of being itself. realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/10/31/atheists_dont_get_god.html#.UnJQMAKHt55.facebook
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