But was it changed based on it being too religious?
Those notes don’t exist, but given what was removed and what was put in, its a perfectly fair conclusion. Franklin was not a church-going man, though he briefly attended a Presbyterian congregation. He was what they called a Deist. He believed in “God” as a worthwhile and workable term to use in describing the prime mover of the universe, but that humans could best explore the designs of that God by studying science.