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Posted on: April 9, 2008 9:01 AM, by Greg Laden
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Comments
Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | April 9, 2008 9:16 AM
After his death? Is this snark or a typo?
Posted by: Chris Coon | April 9, 2008 10:10 AM
The most certain thing we can say about Lincoln is that he was a freethinker. He rejected the Bible and Christianity specifically, but it's open question whether he would consider himself an Atheist, Agnostic, Deist, or Pantheist.
Here's an excellent piece I found the other day about Lincoln and freethought.
Posted by: HP | April 9, 2008 10:25 AM
I'll bet he's baptised as a Mrmon by now, anyway.
Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | April 9, 2008 11:23 AM
Now that one was a typo. I meant "Mormon."
Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | April 9, 2008 12:00 PM
I learned about Abe Lincoln several years ago. Someone tried to use Lincoln to suggest that I should be religious, so I looked it up... boy were they sorry.
Posted by: Inoculated Mind | April 9, 2008 5:30 PM