Chicagoist: Linkin' Lincoln

Spook

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:34:37 -0600

Groogy, cool as a slum lord can be, you could have housed him in Legos cabin!

literati

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:02:22 -0600

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.

groggy

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:22:40 -0600

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.

plumbum82

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:57:01 -0600

@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!

matty

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:48:59 -0600

Well I guess i was wrong!

Spook

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:47:05 -0600

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

Spav1

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:27:10 -0600

I love Abraham Lincoln.

I_h8_toyota_and_BT

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:24:26 -0600

"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

matty

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:17:37 -0600

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.

groggy

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:57:50 -0600

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.