2007-11-02 17:34:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_religion
2007-11-02 17:49:14 · update #1
All american money says that. It's not making fun of Lincoln.
2007-11-02 17:38:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
"The greatest difficulty in coming to a clear picture of Lincoln's faith is the fact that HIS RELIGION DOES NOT FIT INTO MODERN CATEGORIES. He was not an orthodox, evangelical, "born-again" Christian striving toward the "higher life" (as these terms have been used since the 1870s). But neither was he a skeptical "modernist" with a prejudice against the supernatural and an aversion to the Bible."
2007-11-02 18:00:18 · answer #2 · answered by nashgirl21 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln's first regulation important different, John T. Stuart, mentioned of him: "He grew to become into an avowed and open infidel, and from time to time bordered on atheism. He went greater against Christian ideals and doctrines and concepts than any guy I quite have ever heard." "My till now perspectives of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human foundation of the scriptures have become clearer and greater suitable with advancing age and that i see no reason for thinking I shall ever exchange them." - President Abraham Lincoln "The Bible isn't my e book and Christianity isn't my faith. i could desire to under no circumstances provide assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." — Abraham Lincoln.
2016-10-03 05:42:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
2007-11-02 17:51:04 · answer #4 · answered by Bobby 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it says that on all of our money. who knows if abraham lincoln trusted in God? america was built because people wanted to be able to follow their religion without being persecuted. that's where the motto "in God we trust" came from.
2007-11-02 17:42:51 · answer #5 · answered by beans 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it says
In God we trust on Ind plates, amen!
And yes, Lincoln did I believe trust in upper case God
Its the dung corrupt crooked county with its past governers we should worry bout.
3 govers busted and one to go.
Land of Lincoln, we should maybe change that slogan now.
Licoln came from this great state, to bad we have yet to find another like him.
2007-11-02 17:41:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No. He was an atheist. Man will write whatever on currency. It is of the world.
It was because of God that President Lincoln arose to that political position, though.
2007-11-02 17:40:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Lincoln was an atheist. Plus, the money did not say that in his day. In his day, the national motto was "E. Pluribus Unum"
2007-11-02 17:38:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Lincoln was one of our more religious leaders.
It was Thomas Jefferson and his generation who tended to be Deists.
2007-11-02 17:46:07 · answer #9 · answered by Truth 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe Lincoln IS God.
Love Jack
2007-11-02 17:39:03 · answer #10 · answered by Jack 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋