snippy: "Franklin rejected much of his Puritan upbringing: belief in salvation, hell, Jesus Christ's divinity, and indeed most religious dogma. He retained a strong faith in God as the wellspring of morality and goodness in man. Franklin as a young man adopted the Enlightenment religious belief in Deism, that God's truths can be found entirely through nature and reason. One of Franklin's famous characteristics was his respect, tolerance and promotion of all churches."

Ridgerunner: He was also quite the pussy hound in his day. True story.

snippy: yes^ he wrote a great poem about why older women were the greatest. i'll try to find it. he said the pussy was the last thing to go bad on a woman.

Ridgerunner: ^ LOL!