Hume’s Views on Religion

•Hume was raised in an orthodox Calvinist family. He abandoned his religious beliefs early in life, and retained an interest in religion only as an “outsider.”
•Hume argues that all the traditional arguments for the existence of God (ontological, cosmological, teleological, etc.) are failures, and he rejects the notion of a “Natural Theology.”
•(Reminder: Aquinas believed that Reason, apart from Revelation, could by itself establish some truths about God: God’s existence, and many of God’s essential attributes. Such efforts were traditionally called “Natural Theology.”)