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bias in religion section
::{{template|Part of this article was copied from [[Conservapedia]] and [[Wikipedia]] but the copied text was originally written by me, RJJensen (under the name Richard Jensen and rjensen) and does not include alterations made by others on that site.||category=Copied Articles}} [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 19:06, 9 November 2008 (EST)
::{{template|Part of this article was copied from [[Conservapedia]] and [[Wikipedia]] but the copied text was originally written by me, RJJensen (under the name Richard Jensen and rjensen) and does not include alterations made by others on that site.||category=Copied Articles}} [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 19:06, 9 November 2008 (EST)
== Bias ==
This introductory sentence for religious beliefs strikes me as extremely biased against faith, as well as being incorrect in describing Franklin's growing faith as he aged:
:Unable either to reject the grim Calvinism of his youth or to embrace the purely mechanistic universe of Deism, Franklin ultimately experienced a deep ambivalence about his beliefs, and throughout his life he was consistent only in his conviction that individuals had the right to be inconsistent in matters of faith ....
--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 20:38, 7 March 2009 (EST)