Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was a great, liberal President who is most notable for freeing the slaves. He was a Republican in his day, back when "Republican" basically meant "Liberal". He would most likely be ashamed to see the modern GOP and the acts of George W. Bush.

Achievement and death
Lincoln’s most notable achievement was uniting the Union after the Confederate States split off. As Commander-in-Chief he won the American Civil War.

He was, unfortunately, shot and killed by an angry Southern Democrat (which at the time, meant conservative) who supported slavery and was angered after Abraham Lincoln got rid of it. Slavery is, and was, utterly evil. Therefore, we can conclude that John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot him, was also evil.

Quote
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time". Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln's Religious Beliefs
Contrary to popular belief, Abraham Lincoln was neither an atheist nor a member of any Christian Church of his time, though his parents came from a Calvinist background. In his 1846 race for Congress, Lincoln faced response the then-damaging allegation that he was a Free-thinker who scoffed a Christian doctrine. Lincoln issued the formal reply, "That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, nor of any denomination of Christianity in particular." He also indicated that "in early life, I was inclined to believe in what I understand is called the 'Doctrine of Necessity' - that is, that the human mind is compelled to action, or held at rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control," and that he had sometimes attempted to mantain such an opinion in argument. Lincoln found the emotionalism of frontier evangelists deeply unappealing. Despite this his parents' Baptist belief in predestination seems to have been a feature of his personal beliefs throughout his life (though in the form of being foreordaiend by immutable natural laws rather than by a personal deity). Lincoln seems to have become more religious following the stresses of the Civil War and the death of his oldest son (according to his wife, at least). On the whole, his religious views seemed to have inclined from Deism towards some form of Gnostic Monotheism as his life wore on, and it is unclear how much he believed in his own political rhetoric on the subject to the Union at large (which seemed more specifically Christian at times).

Fun Section
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