How much pain can atheists withstand ?

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Citation please.

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Quote : "At the heart of this belief system is Hume's affirmation that there is a god, although not a morally good. Lastly, I summarize Hume's theism (which I call amoral theism ), which is unique in the history of ideas."



Quote (from the section "Interpretation of Hume's view") : "There is, therefore, support for interpreting Hume as a deist of a limited sort. Gaskin calls this Hume’s “attenuated deism,” attenuated in that the analogy to something like human intelligence is incredibly remote, and that no morality of the deity is implied, due especially to the Problem of Evil. However, scholars that attribute weak deism to Hume are split in regard to the source of the belief. Some, like Gaskin, think that Hume’s objections to the design argument apply only to analogies drawn too strongly. Hence, Hume does not reject all design arguments, and , provided that the analogs are properly qualified, might allow the inference. 

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I meant a statement from Hume which supports your claim. I'll give some time to the material you reference, but ultimately that's opinion on a subject which the author himself admits is unclear in the very abstract that you quoted. By most accounts Hume is very critical of the argument from design in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. I'm currently debating whether to leave this discussion to others and bow out. However, in the meantime, what you have given me as a citation claims that there is "support for" the conclusion. Pardon me if I'm underwhelmed by this.