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Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

David Hume
Enemy, Religion, Atheism
David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.48

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

David Hume
Order, Atheism, Unexpected
David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.368

..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.

David Hume
Philosophical, Atheism, Foundation
David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.358

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

David Hume
Character, Religion, Atheism
David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.146

The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular.

David Hume
Religious, Atheism, Add
David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.360

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