Protestants Lacking in Discernment: Ben Franklin Edition

Many Evangelicals are currently celebrating Benjamin Franklin as a great Christian hero thanks to a new faith-based movie. But history paints a very different picture.
Lifelong Freemason
Printer and promoter of Masonic texts
Deeply involved in the Lodge for decades
His famous “prayer motion” at the Constitutional Convention was rejected by the delegates
The myth of Franklin as a born-again proto-Evangelical is not history — it is Americanist hagiography. When love for the American Experiment overrides the Faith once delivered to the saints, discernment disappears. Orthodoxy calls us to something higher than patriotic mythology. We are called to love truth, not convenient founding-father legends. Read the full article here:

https://orthodoxreflections.com/protestants-lacking-in-discernment-ben-franklin-edition/

True Christianity is not found in 18th-century Deists and Masons. It is preserved in the Orthodox Church.What do you think? Are we too harsh in judging the Founders by Christian standards, or are many Protestants too lenient because of their love for America?