deism
...lties sufficient for the improvement of his nature and the acquisition of happiness”, is about man and his characteristics that help him become a happier person. I believe that Franklin has based his whole autobiography on this belief. The autobiography is mainly about how Franklin tried to be a happier or better person. Franklin tried to become a better person by making of log of all of his faults he would like to work on (859). If he found that on a specific day he had a fault he would mark his log with a black dot. Franklin’s hopes for this was that after thirteen days there would not be any black dots in his log. The second major element, “The religion of nature is the only universal religion; it grows out of the moral relations of intelligent beings, and it stands connected with the progressive improvement and common welfare of the human race”, deals with nature as a religion. According to the Deist beliefs religion does not exist unless it is in nature, instead of turning to God for hope and answers Deist turn to nature. Franklin believes that it is better to be a good person than to be a religious person. Franklin thought churches were bad because they did not teach people how to be good citizens. He also believed that churches were dry and uninteresting. This can be seen in Franklin’s “Autobiography” when Franklin states, “Had he in my opinion , a good Preacher perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday’s Leisure in my Course of Study: But his Discourses were chiefly either polemic Arguments, or Explications of the peculiear Doctrines of our Sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting and unedifying…” (858). This quote clearly shows how Franklin felt about religion and its churches. The last major element in the Deist Creed is “Science and truth, virtue and happiness, are the greatest objects to which the activity and energy of the human faculties ought to be directed”. This quote says that if everything would be directed around science, truth, virtue, and happiness then everything would be wonderful. Franklin believed this because from reading his biography all that he wanted for everybody in the world was happiness, and he thought by applying these four things happiness would exist. Science, truth, virtue, and happiness can be seen in Franklin’s “Autobiography” from his log. He used science when coming up with the idea of classifying his fa...