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Often appears with: the problem of evil and theodicy · religious persecution and toleration · religious doubt and conversion · moral philosophy · justice as a virtue · ethics of sincerity and integrity · deism vs revelation · crime and punishment
Usually: reflection (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
Franklin explains his youth’s shift from dissenting religion to deism, his doubts about revelation after reading polemics, and how he still formed resolutions to value sincerity, integrity, and useful morality in human dealings.
he was an odd fish; ignorant of common life, fond of rudely opposing receiv'd opinions, slovenly to extream dirtiness, enthusiastic in some points of religion, and a little knavish withal. We continu'd there near three months; and by that time I could reckon among my acquired friends, Judge Allen, Samuel Bustill, the secretary of the Province, Isaac Pearson, Joseph Cooper, and several of the Smiths, members of Assem…