An argument trying to prevent this man from being persecuted for atheism also prevented his taking a post at an institution where he wrote the essay "Of Superstition and Religion."  Better known works of his include the essay "On the Immortality of the Soul," "On Suicide," and a work in which Cleanthes, Demea, and Philo debate the validity of the ontological argument. For 10 points, name this auth
An argument trying to prevent this man from being persecuted for atheism also prevented his taking a post at an institution where he wrote the essay "Of Superstition and Religion."  Better known works of his include the essay "On the Immortality of the Soul," "On Suicide," and a work in which Cleanthes, Demea, and Philo debate the validity of the ontological argument. For 10 points, name this author of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, a Scottish empiricist best known for An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
An argument trying to prevent this man from being persecuted for atheism also prevented his taking a post at an institution where he wrote the essay "Of Superstition and Religion."  
David {Hume}