Benjamin Franklin

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

This deistic belief must have been a great comfort to him, at least some times, as it absolved him from many duties that God has revealed to man. Of course, it precluded him from many joys as well. The truth is that the Infinite Father is a true father, and that he bends down to us in infinite love.

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