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."  
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}