From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 11:29:24 MDT
(Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com>):
>Even the most liberal of the founders were believers. Franklin
>was a Quaker
But not a very good one. From Franklin's letter to Ezra Stiles
on 9 March 1790:
"I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some
doubts as to his [Jesus] divinity; though it is a question I do not
dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless
to busy myself with it now"
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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