>I don't think Franklin was a member, per se, I think he just showed up for a couple of the orgies.

Hmmm. Membership has its privileges I suppose.


>Of course that was back in the day when people didn't know that drunken orgies with prostitutes were bad.

Ha! So that's the 'tradition values' I keep hearing about?



>Franklin was, however, a founder of the Masonic Lodge in Paris and an active member of the lodge in London. Good reason to believe he *was* as deist in the true 18th century sense.

Yes he was.


Interesting, thanks Charles.