Benjamin Franklin Quotes
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
Keyes was an extreme fundamentalist Christian. Obama was also a religious question but his version of Christianity was not as rigid and extreme as that of Keyes, who was able to determine exactly how Jesus Christ would have voted on every bill before the senate. Obama did not vote for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and he supported the right of a woman to control her own body and have an abortion of she so decided. Obama won in a landslide including getting the vast majority of the religious vote. Keyes maintained that he had not attacked Obama for his own behavior but for the behavior he voted to enable.
Some of the founding fathers were deeply religious men while others were not so. Some varied in their believes at different times of their lives, and a number were not very favorable towards orthodox religion. At the time, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches were persecuting other religions throughout Europe and people were still being killed for their “heretical” beliefs. Most important to some of them, kings and other monarchs whom they abhorred, all at the time claimed the Divine Right of Kings and the established churches were the most important support for monarchs. At the time most organized religions were opposed to freedom of conscience and certainly opponents of separation of church and state. American churches tended to take on American values but were never given the chance to dominate the American government they way many religions had in Europe and the rest of the world.
This proposal and others like it over the years have never even gotten out of Committee.
Some other Republican governors thought that Fordice had misspoken and offered him a chance to correct or modify his statement. He declined.
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A polymath, he was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department, and the University of Pennsylvania.
