Even the founding fathers cherry-picked their religious beliefs

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I think vital Religion has always suffer'd, when Orthodoxy is more regarded than Virtue. And the Scripture assures me, that at the last Day, we shall not be examin'd what we thought, but what we did; and our Recommendation will not be that we said Lord, Lord, but that we did GOOD to our Fellow Creatures.

--Benjamin Franklin, letter to Josiah and Abiah Franklin, April 13, 1738

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