Think americas most common code of spirituality. And for franklin when you go back to the 18th century, doctrineless moralized christianity was serious intellectual business. It was very serious. Born out of contemporary religious debates and dissatisfaction with his familys puritanism, like many skeptics in the 18th century, franklin was weary of 300 years of fighting over the legacy of the ref reformation. Franklin grew up in a world of intractable conflict between catholics and protestants. But also within and between protestant denominations themselves. What good was christianity, he wondered, if it precipitated pettiness, persecution and violence. Unlike some selfhelp celebrities today, franklin and his cohort of european and american deists reckoned in promoting a ethicsfocused christianity, they were redeeming christianity itself. How successful that redemptive effort was, you all are going to have to decide for yourselves. Could you really have a nonexclusive doctrinely minimal
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Discipline, denerve lebe nerve success in this live. Thats what good wants for us. Well, today its easy to dismiss this sort of pot faith because its so often peddled by wealthy media superstars, but it is i think americas most common code of spirituality. And for franklin when you go back to the 18th century, doctrineless moralized christianity was serious intellectual business. It was very serious. Born out of contemporary religious debates and dissatisfaction with his familys puritanism, like many skeptics in the 18th century, franklin was weary of 300 years of fighting over the legacy of the ref reformation. Franklin grew up in a world of intractable conflict between catholics and protestants. But also within and between protestant denominations themselves. What good was christianity, he wondered, if it precipitated pettiness, persecution and violence. Unlike some selfhelp celebrities today, franklin and his cohort of european and american deists reckoned in promoting a ethicsfocus
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Memorandum. Our special guest, congressman mark meadows. He says the American People deserve to see the memo. And scary moments for republican lawmakers, 200 of them. A chartered train carrying them to a retreat in west virginia, collided with a trash truck. The driver of the truck was killed, a passenger critically injured. None of the lawmakers were injured. But president obama says they are shaken. President trump they are doing pretty good. The train accident was a tough one. A tremendous jolt. And they are proceeding to their conference. We dont have a full understanding yet as to what happened. But it was a train hitting a truck going at a pretty good speed. Lou tonight its unclear why that truck was on the tracks. The president ial himself will be addressing lawmakers at that retreat tomorrow. It will be something of a victory lap for the president who delivered a powerful, impressive, state of the union address. Well discuss whats next for this president who seems unstoppable.