[aft_lizard]

The only problem I have is when Ben Franklin was reviewing the draft of the declaration with Adams and Jefferson and he about a line in it being too pulpity or preachy as if to insinuate faith has no part in the declaration of independence. Other than that the series has been just great so far.

[babble-on]

The actual physical draft of the Declaration with Franklin’s edits, the exact ones in the film, exists today.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/images/draft1.jpg

[wideawake]

The only problem I have is when Ben Franklin was reviewing the draft of the declaration with Adams and Jefferson and he about a line in it being too pulpity or preachy as if to insinuate faith has no part in the declaration of independence.

Yes, that rang false.

[allmendream]

Franklin, although he described himself as a ‘thorough Deist’; was not at all against something being ‘preachy’. He supported many different religious institutions and supported a really great orator who was filling in the pews until it was revealed that his sermons were plagiarized.