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In the totality of his work Hume wrote more about religion than about any other single philosophical subject. Almost all of what he wrote was critical; some of it has since been recognised as terminally destructive.
[Hume] seems to me one of those philosophers that think to spin out Systems, out of their own brain, without regard to religion, antiquity or Tradition sacred or profane. (The Chevalier Ramsey)
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Gaskin, J.C.A. (1988). Introduction: Hume on Religion. In: Hume’s Philosophy of Religion. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18936-6_1
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