The Deist's Creed of Benjamin Franklin
Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Washington and other Founding Fathers of the U.S. were influenced by "Deism," the rationalistic and empirical philosophy of the 17th Century Enlightenment. Like the Greek philosophers, they viewed God as universal Reason, who creates the world and allows it to operate by natural rules, including ethical as well as physical laws. The good life is a life of rational action in...
