Comparing Benjamin Franklin And Religion

As we all know, Benjamin Franklin was not only a founding father of the United States but also has been seen as a renaissance men with multiple talents such as being a scientist, inventor, and author. With his knowledge he expands his religious views over the years of American society in a different perspective. Franklin believed that religion was vital to sustaining a moral society with people being able to receive a motivation or incentive to live and towards the afterlife. However, despite the pros of religion towards the common people of America. Franklin strongly thought religion was worthless over time unless it promoted or distributed vitreous behavior upon the common people, but Franklin still thanked god for helping him achieve a good life with a …show more content…
Unlike Franklin, she thinks the life itself was built and progressed by God himself, that he created the faith and path of the Puritan colonists. The views from these two autobiographies have shown different beliefs, however religion have always dominated humanity, as religion continues humanity will always pick it up and see it from different perspectives. I would like to elaborate and discuss how religion has strongly impacted both Benjamin Franklin and Mary Rowlandson’s lives in different ways and how they perceived and grasp the concept of religion differently in their autobiographies Benjamin Franklin has always been a troublemaker growing up as a child but had good intentions and substantial work ethic under his inspiring dad that had taught him what he needed to know to be a man of great social standing and wealth. Throughout his young childhood he believed in god but not in a interventionist way where religious denomination comes in play. In his autobiography his religious practices and readings made him feel skeptical towards religion as he grows this sense of skepticism, others