Topic > Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Autobiography

Franklin said, “I respected them all, though with varying degrees of respect as I found them more or less mixed with others” (412). An example of mixed religions would be, Puritanism vs. Separatists: both believed in the same God, but both thought they were better than each other and the reason varies. Franklin was a true believer of the Godhead. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary Deity means God or Goddess. He believed that there was a God and that he created the world. The book tells us the following: “I have never been without some religious Principles; I have never doubted, for example, the existence of the divinity, who created the world and governed it with his Providence.;”