That's true in the [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphatic_theology but not true in the [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology or negative theology (describing God only by what God is not). It's likely that Hume was unaware of apophatic theology as it's not part of the Catholic -> Protestant -> Rationalist -> Atheist tradition but rather part of the Eastern Orthodox Christian (middle eastern, not far eastern, although they had forays there too) theology. References Visible links 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphatic_theology 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology