He would 1000% use it to pick up women claiming he was a world traveler who has seen exotic sights (and wants to see one more exotic sight nudge nudge wink wink)
Think that was Jefferson. Supposedly he was big into studying religions, and I seem to remember the first Muslim in Congress being sworn in on the same Quran.
If someone gave Ben Franklin a Keffiyeh he’d wear the thing around, incorrectly, for the next year. But blah blah blah desecration
He would 1000% use it to pick up women claiming he was a world traveler who has seen exotic sights (and wants to see one more exotic sight nudge nudge wink wink)
The way we remember Ben Franklin is basically just Danny Devito but slightly hornier.
He seems like he’d be pulling off those Trudeau publicity stunts constantly. You may not like it but this is what a modern Ben Franklin would be like:
Franklin would be out there claiming to be an “octoroon” to nail more French dilletantes
Not enough publicity tears 😢
Another photo of him doing whiteface smdh.
Didn’t Ben Franklin learn Arabic through his own copy of the Quran, or am I thinking of a different guy?
Think that was Jefferson. Supposedly he was big into studying religions, and I seem to remember the first Muslim in Congress being sworn in on the same Quran.
It was Rashida Tlaib, but I think it’s an english translation of the Quran!
This was what I was thinking of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_110th_United_States_Congress
Apparently the Jefferson Qu’ran thing came later and he was sworn in using a “regular” Qu’ran.
Apparently he created an edit of the bible that took out all the miracles and just focused on the stuff that could be applied to secular thought.