Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

'Generally speaking,' he once wrote, 'the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.' In the Dialogues, one of his supreme masterpieces, he savages most of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, shows how religion is often founded on ignorance and irrational fears and suggest that only 'the rational and philosphical kind' of religion (if any) can possibly stand up to serious scrutiny. Hume's intense scepticim and astounding ability to take nothing on...