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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Franklin truly was a deist, he wasn’t a very good one. Doctrinaire deists believed in a distant Creator, one who did not intervene in human history, and certainly not one who would respond to prayers. Yes, Franklin questioned basic points of Christianity, including Jesus’ divine nature. Yet his childhood immersion in the Puritan faith, and his relationships with traditional Christians through his adult life, kept him tethered to his parents’ religion. If he was not a Christian, he often sounded and acted like one. The King James Bible, for example, had a significant influence on Franklin. From his first writings as “Silence Dogood”—the pseudonym he adopted when writing essays for his brother’s newspaper, the New- England Courant—to his speeches at the Constitutional Convention, Franklin was constantly referencing the Bible. He knew it backward and forward, recalling even the most obscure sections of it from memory. In today’s polarized political and religious environment, some pundits seek to remake the Founding Fathers in their own image. Benjamin Franklin’s example reveals that the historical truth is often more complicated. https://www.baylor.edu/alumni/magazine/1601/index.php?id=944746 Op, you are not a scholar, academic, or historian. Scholars, academics, and historians don’t all agree that these men were deists. You are declaring something that is highly debated as truth, something often done online anonymously. Just because you say it, doesn’t mean it is true. You can believe whatever you wish. [/quote] So can you - or anyone. I say they were deists, who sometimes went to Church, because it was the done thing in those days. Washington was famous for leaving church in Alexandria before communion (according to the tour guides there).[/quote]
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