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Ben Franklin was a self-proclaimed deist who didn't believe in an interventionist god. So why did he ask the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to open their proceedings with a prayer? Even weirder, why did the other presumably Christian convocates turn him down?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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