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We're always on the lookout for weird or cool Abraham Lincoln stuff.
Like BilliKid's Lincoln stencil, or this ass-kicking robo-gun-arm Lincoln.
On the more academic side of things, Eric Zorn wonders if Lincoln was a Christian. The answer, from the recently released Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln: Not so much.
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As a child, I used to think Lincoln came to my house on President's Day, the same way Santa might on Christmas Eve. That's what I get for being a nerd-baby.
I think saying that Lincoln was not a Christian is a stretch.
That article confuses non-denominational with non-Christian which is not the same thing.
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them." Lincoln in a letter to Judge J.S. Wakefield, after the death of Willie Lincoln
"To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life." Teddy Roosevelt letter to J. C. Martin, 9 November 1908
I love Abraham Lincoln.
Groory!
Lincoln came to your house? What kinda privilege is that? What was he doing there? Attending a black tie party?
Oh and Lincoln was an agnostic and yea I think he was the coolest President to date and the most courageous and the most humorist
Well I guess i was wrong!
@Spav1:
Seconded.
@Spook:
I don't know... Truman gives Lincoln a run for his money. I'd give a limb to bring him back from the dead to retake the White House!
Zombie Truman in '08!
Spook,
FYI, it was no black-tie affair. He slept in the little log cabin I built him. I didn't question how he fit inside the milk cartons from my kindergarten class because I was just that cool.
The Republicans are always so proud to point out that they are the Party of Lincoln. Yet they're also the party of the Christian conservative... Hmmm.
Groogy, cool as a slum lord can be, you could have housed him in Legos cabin!