First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty Page #3
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and so he would thumb
his nose at the clergy,
say they were
too conventional,
they were too dry,
they were dead.
Mitchell:
In the Philadelphiacrowd that day
was Benjamin Franklin,
already a well-known printer,
the author
of the hugely successful
"poor Richard's almanack."
Ben Franklin was
a compendium of American
intellectual interests,
an autodidact who would
go on to chart the Gulf stream
bifocals,
and the Franklin stove.
He was a deeply
unconventional man.
He believed in God
but rejected organized religion.
Man as Benjamin Franklin:
religious principles.
I never doubted,
for instance,
the existence of the deity,
that he made the world
and governed it
by his Providence
and that the most
acceptable service of God
was the doing good to man.
Benjamin Franklin.
Church:
He believedin the practicality of religion,
that religion was a useful tool
to organize society
and keep people loving
their neighbor as themselves.
Brethren and fathers
and all ye whom I am
about to preach
the kingdom of God,
I suppose you need not be...
Mitchell:
Franklin didn't proselytize.
He didn't discuss
unless he was pressed.
He gave donations
to a wide variety of churches,
yet he'd decided
beforehand that he would be
impervious
to whitefield's message.
Man as Franklin:
should get nothing from me.
I had in my pocket
3 or 4 silver dollars,
and 5 pistoles in gold.
As he proceeded,
I began to soften
and concluded to give
the coppers.
Another stroke of his
oratory made me ashamed of that,
and determined me
to give the silver,
and he finished
so admirably that I emptied
the collection plate,
gold and all.
Mitchell:
In the end,of whitefield's tracts.
The preacher's eloquence
kick-started what was known
as the great awakening,
a wave of Evangelical fervor
that lasted a decade.
The awakening went
beyond the spiritual.
that these 13 separate
and very different colonies
were connected,
not only language but beliefs.
themselves as large actors
upon the biggest stage of all.
Americans began to realize
that they were one people.
Meacham:
They werefounding a new world,
there was
a great deal of imagery,
a great deal of conversation
about America being
the new Israel,
the new promised land.
There was an intense
religious feeling shaping
the generation that became
the revolutionary generation.
Mitchell:
When
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