Jesus christ is THE solution and Benjamin Franklin(a free-masson ?) is very far for being God.
Anyway he is not my messiah .
Sarkozy, like Obama, are plain liberal-fascists and are owned by oligarch scums.
As a french i perfectly know the lies of Sarkozy who betrayed the french people.
You probably ignore the meaning of freedom which has nothing to do with liberalism
Ulysse, this is America, and Free Republic is an American conservative forum.
Benjamin Franklin was one of our founders, and one of the greatest Americans. He was not a religious leader, and we admire and respect him. We do not worship him, or any other man.
Many of our founders, like George Washington, as well as the many French military officers who fought in our American Revolution because they loved liberty, like Lafayette, Noailles, Rochambeau were masons. They are all members of the Society of Cincinnati.
Most of us who are not Roman Catholic, have a family member who was a mason. It was very common in the late 19th-early 20th century. There is nothing at all nefarious about it.