I am currently studying intellectual history, and David Hume is one of the figures on whom we are focusing. It seems that, although he was far from the only controversial figure of his day, his impact was incredibly divisive, leading to his prosecution and earlier rejection from two different university chairs.
Does anyone have any insight as to why he was so loathed by the Presbyterian church in particular? Naturally his anti-religious views were a huge factor, but what in particular about his work made him a target?
Atheism was still a crime punishable by death in Scotland, although he never publicly say said he was an atheism, but his philosophy was viewed as a philosophy of an atheist. Also in contexts of philosophy, one the most important work in philosophy Kant's Critque of Pure Reason was an repudiation of Hume.