Why did Franklin prefer to think of the rights of men as a
matter of reason and rationality instead of religion?
A Franklin did not think that religious men were
endowed with equality and inalienable rights.
B Franklin thought religion could only deal with facts
(such as, "London is bigger than Philadelphia").
Franklin did not think that the rights of men should
be left up to religion; he thought they would be
better protected if they were axioms, or "self-
evident" truths.
D Franklin thought religion could only deal with
truths that were declared so through reason and
definition (such as, "the angles of a triangle total
180 degrees"; "all bachelors are unmarried").