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To: Matchett-PI
Your argument about Critical thinking should be addressed to Benjamin Franklin's' thinking because it was he who saw nothing incompatible with being a "Thorough Deist" (his words) and believing in Providence (his words in the same book, his autobiography)that there was a plan put in place by the author of the universe.


So your argument is with a dead man. Showing that you need a remedial course in critical thinking.
72 posted on 08/04/2005 11:19:27 AM PDT by Mylo ("Those without a sword should sell their cloak and buy one" Jesus of Nazareth)
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To: Mylo
"Your argument about Critical thinking should be addressed to Benjamin Franklin's' thinking because it was he who saw nothing incompatible with being a "Thorough Deist" (his words) and believing in Providence (his words in the same book, his autobiography)that there was a plan put in place by the author of the universe.So your argument is with a dead man. Showing that you need a remedial course in critical thinking."

If you insist on continuing to make a fool of yourself, I don't care.

Benjamin Franklin, Christian in his youth, Deist in later years, then back to his Puritan background in his old age (his June 28, 1787 prayer at the Constitutional Convention was from no "Deist")

73 posted on 08/04/2005 11:25:05 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law overarching rulers and ruled alike)
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