Other Arguments

• David Hume on Religious Language

  There are two areas of knowledge: a priori knowledge (which Hume calls Relation of Ideas) and a posteriori knowledge (which Hume calls Matters of Fact). Hume argues that metaphysics, including the discussion of God, should be rejected as it can be neither of the above.
• Norman Malcoms criticism of David Humes view of religious langauge

  Malcom would disagree with Hume’s approach. He said, “The obsessive concern with the proofs of the existence of God reveals the assumption that in order for religious belief to be intellectually respectable it ought to have rational justification. That is the misunderstanding. It is like the idea that we are not justified in relying on memory until memory has been proved reliable...”