What it's like walking around Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park - Hodgenville, KY

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a designated U.S. historic park preserving two separate farm sites in LaRue County, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born and lived early in his childhood - Wikipedia.

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The Life and Character of
Abraham Lincoln

by

Hon. George L. Christian


LINCOLN NOT A CHRISTIAN

One of the commonest, and one of the most attractive, claims now asserted by the admirers of Mr. Lincoln is, that he was a pious man and a Christian. Lamon tells us after his assassination he was compared to the Savior and Redeemer of mankind. One of his reverend admirers compares his assassination to the crucifixion of our Lord; and since both of these events occurred on Good Friday, the writer says "even the day was fit." But since Mr. Lincoln's "taking off" was in a theater, it may be noted that this fanatical divine says nothing as to the fitness of the place at which the "taking off" occurred.
Another divine, in an oration delivered this year on the centennial anniversary of Mr. Lincoln's birth, begins it with the words: "There was a man sent from God whose name was Abraham Lincoln.' He then speaks of him as being "like unto Melchizedek," and as the "one great man, and mystery and miracle of the nineteenth century."
It seems to us that the real mystery here is the fact that any one anywhere should be so foolish in this enlightened age as to suppose he can make sensible people swallow any such twaddle, nonsense and sacrilege as this.
Herndon says of Mr. Lincoln's alleged Christianity:
Lincoln was a deep-grounded infidel. He disliked and despised churches. He never entered a church except to scoff and ridicule. On coming from a church he would mimic the preacher. Before running for any office, he wrote a book against Christianity and the Bible. He showed it to some friends and read extracts. A man named Hill was greatly shocked and urged Lincoln not publish it; urged it would kill him politically. Hill got this book in his hands, opened the stove door, and it went up in flames and ashes. After that Lincoln became more discreet, and when running for office often used words and phrases to make it appear that he was a Christian. he never changed on this subject; he lived and died a deep-grounded infidel (Facts and Falsehoods, p. 53; see also Lamon, pp. 489-493).
Lamon says:
Mr. Lincoln was never a member of any church, nor did he believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures in the sense understood by evangelical Christians.... Overwhelming testimony out of many mouths, and none more stronger than out of his own, place these facts beyond controversy.... when he went to church at all, he went to mock, and came away to mimic (Lamon, pp. 486-487)
Lamon further says:
It was not until after Mr. Lincoln's death that his alleged orthodoxy became the principal topic of his eulogists; but since then the effort on the part of some political writers and speakers to impress the public mind erroneously seems to have been general and systematic (ibid., p. 487).
He then inserts the letters of a number of Mr. Lincoln's closest friends and neighbors, all of whom fully sustain his statements. One of these says : "Lincoln went further against Christian beliefs and doctrines and principles than any man I ever heard. He shocked me" (ibid., p. 488)
Another (Herndon) says: Lincoln told me a thousand times that he did not believe the Bible was a revelation from God as the Christian world contends.... And that Jesus was not the Son of God (ibid., p. 489).
Another (Judge David Davis) says: "He had no faith, in the Christian sense of the term" (ibid. p. 489)
Lamon then quotes Mrs. Lincoln as saying: "Mr. Lincoln had no hope and no faith, in the usual acceptance of those words" (ibid. p. 489)
And Mr. Nicolay, Lincoln's private secretary, as saying: "Mr. Lincoln did not, to my knowledge, in any way change his religious views, opinions or beliefs from the time he left Springfield to the day of his death" (ibid. p. 492)
It seems to us that these statements from these sources ought to settle this question, and that it is wrong, and nothing short of an outrage on the truth of history to assert that Mr. Lincoln was, or ever claimed to be, a Christian; that such an assertion can only reflect on those who make it, and must bring upon them the application of the maxim, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus; for surely those who are so reckless as to misrepresent a fact of this nature will not hesitate to misrepresent any other fact that is suits them to misrepresent or misstate.

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It's better he's not a christian. What's the point here? What are you trying to say? No one with normal brain cares what religion he was