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Guess Who Got To Be The Worst Person In the World!

Posted on: April 9, 2008 9:01 AM, by Greg Laden

Monique Davis!

Hey, I didn't know Abe Lincoln was an Atheist. Cool.

Hat Tip: Pharyngula

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Hey, I didn't know Abe Lincoln was an Atheist. Cool.
Debatable. Honest Abe converted to Christianity shortly after his death.

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | April 9, 2008 9:16 AM

2

After his death? Is this snark or a typo?

Posted by: Chris Coon | April 9, 2008 10:10 AM

3

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

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After his death? Is this snark or a typo?
Snark, but snark based in reality. There were false stories spread about Lincoln and his godliness after he was not around to refute them.
I'll bet he's baptised as a Mrmon by now, anyway.

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | April 9, 2008 11:23 AM

5

Now that one was a typo. I meant "Mormon."

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | April 9, 2008 12:00 PM

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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

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