Re: [RR] Lincoln: Did he really say this????!!!!!

[Jose Rodriguez]

I also found this in a Baptist web site listing all the famous baptist:   Abraham Lincoln: In truth, Lincoln is rarely thought of as Baptist. But his father was a member of Regular Baptist churches in Kentucky and Indiana. Fairly early in Lincoln's life he developed many distinctly personal beliefs. Although he read the Bible regularly and was committed to God and morality throughout his life, he is widely regarded by historians as having been a Deist. Most of his beliefs as a young man and as an adult could not be characterized as Baptist. Mark A. Noll's article, The Ambiguous Religion of Abraham Lincoln covers this topic in more detail. The website they mention is located here: http://www.adherents.com/misc/Lincoln.html   Though I would tend to agree with The Larrikin that he did not become a born again Christian until the Battle of Gettysburg.       ----- Original Message ----- From: Jose Rodriguez To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:09 PM Subject: [RR] Lincoln: Did he really say this????!!!!! I was surfing the net and I found this shocking quote: "The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." "...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man--this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal." Speech, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858 --Abraham Lincoln I found this quote on http://www.2think.org/quotes1.html and I find it quite sad since I have always viewed Abraham Lincoln as strong Christian man.  Could this have been taken out of context?  I pray this is so, otherwise I probably won't ever get to meet him in person (if you know what I mean). CMDR Jose F. Rodriguez Outpost 214, Potomac District