David Hume's Views On Religion

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In Hume's view, everything follows the law of nature is true. We trust that fire can give out heat because we can feel the hot temperature from it. It doesn't mean that everything we can see is true, but everything under the law of nature truly happens. Therefore, the miracles may not true, but the miracles in religion are a kind of related to our faith, spirit to the god who we believe in. It is not asking you to distrust every testimony and ignoring there is some powerful god in the world. Hume recognizes that there is some powerful god in the world. However, he is believing in the nature truth more than the god. He explains his distrust as there are some people who are uneducated and the people who he

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