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  2. A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain

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    A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain is a philosophical pamphlet by Benjamin Franklin, published in London in 1725 in response to The Religion of Nature Delineated. Arguments about human motivation

  3. Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] ... this was somewhat politically risky and pushed religious tolerance to new boundaries, ...

  4. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of ...

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    Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. is a short essay written in 1751 by American polymath Benjamin Franklin. [1] It was circulated by Franklin in manuscript to his circle of friends, but in 1755 it was published as an addendum in a Boston pamphlet on another subject. [2]

  5. American Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Enlightened Founding Fathers, especially Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington, fought for and eventually attained religious freedom for minority denominations. According to the Founding Fathers, the United States should be a country where peoples of all faiths could live in peace and mutual benefit.

  6. Franklin Prophecy - Wikipedia

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    The Franklin "Prophecy" is a classic anti-Semitic canard that falsely claims that American statesman Benjamin Franklin made anti-Jewish statements during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It has found widening acceptance in Muslim and Arab media, where it has been used to criticize Israel and Jews...

  7. History of religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The number of people with other religions was almost nonexistent in 1948, but rose to 5% by 2011, partially due to large immigration from non-Christian countries. The percentage of non-religious people (atheists, agnostics, and irreligious people) in the US has dramatically increased from 2% to 13%. The number of Americans unsure about their ...

  8. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    These views on religious tolerance and the importance of individual conscience, ... Goethe, Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin [266] and George Washington. ...

  9. Benjamin Franklin (clergyman) - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin (February 1, 1812 – October 22, 1878) was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement.