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Abraham lincoln was a great man with the hardest and most heartbreaking decisions a president has ever had to make! Besides that, he suffered from the loss of two young children and a wife that had frequent periods of insanity.
Whatever Abraham lincoln's spiritual beliefs were does not take away from his greatness, and has nothing to do with this forum.
Let the atheist websites and yourself have a ball with it, but it does not belong here.


During Abraham lincolns years as president he did regularly attend the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington.

My question is. Why would he attend a protestant church regularly if he was a deist or atheist?
Abraham Lincoln was seen and recorded by many people as reading his bible and even praying.

The atheist websites are very active in trying to present any public figures as an atheist or deist as if it promotes their atheistic views.
The atheist websites are making a big deal out of it, by saying Abraham Lincoln never officially proclaimed he wanted to join the church or proclaim aloud or in written testimony to the public that he was a Christian.

Abraham Lincoln nor George Washington were ever atheists, the "Positive Atheism" website presents some other writings about the religious beliefs and practices of these two presidents at: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/steiner0.htm.


You love throwing this qoute by saying Abraham Lincoln said it:
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
According to wikipedia, It is a very supect quote.

WIKIPEDIA:
As with many very notable people, many remarks have been wrongly attributed to Lincoln, and many comments that do not have clear references to contemporary sources (and even a few that do) should be considered highly suspect.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
This seems a paraphrase of a statement in the Lyceum address of 1838.
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
As a young school boy speaking about his Presidential ambitions.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Attributed by William M Thayer in his The Pioneer Boy (1882)
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Frederick Trevor Hill credits Lincoln with this in Lincoln the Lawyer (1906), adding that 'History has considerately sheltered the identity of the victim'.
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
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 he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Attributed in Ervin S Chapman's Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln (1917).
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
No early authority has been found for Lincoln's saying this. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor from 1410 to 1437, was quoted in The Sociable Story-teller (1846) as saying 'Do I not most effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?'.
See also: more quotes on Friendship
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Included in Francis T Miller's Portrait-Life of Lincoln (1910).
I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Found in Melancthon Woolsey Stryker's Hamilton, Lincoln & Other Addresses (1896).
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Attributed in Osborn Oldroyd (ed.) Lincoln Memorial (1882)
If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.
According to F B Carpenter's The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867), Lincoln quoted this as having been said to him by a fellow-passenger in a stagecoach.
It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.
Perhaps a man's character is like a tree, and his reputation like its character: the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
Attributed in Daniel Kilham Dodge's Abraham Lincoln: The Evolution of his Literary Style (1900)
So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!
Lincoln's supposed greeting, in 1862, to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The Lord prefers common-looking people: that is why he made so many of them.
Lincoln told John Hay that he had said this in a dream to someone who told him he was common-looking (J G Nicolay and John Hay Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890))
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
Well, for those who like that sort of thing, I should think it is just about the sort of thing they would like.
Also given in the Penguin Book of Quotations 1960 as:
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Of a book.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Also said to be an Irish proverb.
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Do you deny this quote from President Abraham Lincoln?
Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1865)

Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came... Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes.
If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.