Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or co…

Benjamin Franklin
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Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1847). Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself: With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, p.102
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