ABSTRACT
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion are cautious and artful, as well as a masterpiece both of philosophy and, for those of us able to take religion lightly, of comedy. With his usual economy of effort, Hume does not need dogmatically to deny the existence of something-we-know-not-what. Better just to laugh at supposing that either assertion or denial properly has any significance for us, here on earth.
