Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in the lightning storm and he wanted to have an explanation for what lightning really is. He didn’t accept the puritan notion that god was responsible for lightning and people wasn’t supposed to concern themselves with the work of god. He didn’t believe in god and he is a scientists. He said temperance. Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation. Benjamin Franklin had made his on commandments and he made a chart on himself to see what he was doing wrong. Benjamin said god didn’t make him perfect so he try to himself. He is a rationalists because he use science and mathematic to figure out more stuff about the world today.