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Tag Archives: Abraham Lincoln
Was Abraham Lincoln Gay and Agnostic?
Prior to seeing the below Andrew Sullivan video at YouTube, I’d never heard the claim that Abraham Lincoln was gay. I think the evidence is strong that Lincoln was an agnostic, and I’d be delighted to learn that he was … Continue reading
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Mao Luther King?
I don’t like the look or feel of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C. For one, he looks fat, and he wasn’t particularly fat. And there’s something weirdly Maoist about it—a throwback to 20th century communist … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, China, civil liberties, civil rights, freedom, Mao, Maoism, Martin Luther King, sculpture, Thomas Jefferson
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The Apotheosis of Abraham Lincoln into the Arms of George Washington, Accompanied by Angels and Light Breaking Through Clouds
I love this. It was drawn by an anonymous artist in the 1860s and is now housed as part of the collection at the George Eastman House:
On Gay Adoption, the GOP’s Karen Handel is an Irrationalist
GOP candidate for Georgia governor, Karen Handel, in a recent interview for local Georgia television, offers no reasons for opposing gay adoption. She just does: Q: So you think gay couples are less qualified to function as parents than straight couples? A: I … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, adoption, America, critical thinking, gay equality, gay rights, karen handel, lesbian, Politics, reason, the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson
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A Little Reminder of Mitt Romney’s Willingness to Scapegoat Atheists and Agnostics for the Purposes of Uniting the Republican Party
Mitt Romney—in a speech to Republicans on December 6, 2007—tried to drive secular people like me to America’s margins as the invisible and dehumanized others. I bring this up now, in 2010, because Romney is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, agnostics, atheism, atheists, bigotry, conservatism, Jesus, mitt romney, mormons, Republicans, the doubting community
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Are you a member of the faith community—or the doubting community?
Because every other year or so I teach the Bible as literature course at my college, I was asked to be on a panel discussing how to deal with religion in the classroom. The event was held last night and one … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, doubt, Emily Dickinson, faith, Jesus, religion, the doubting community, Thomas Jefferson
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Why Sherry Marquez, as a Christian, should treat Muslims in Lancaster, Ca. as her friends
Below is an excerpt from an 1842 speech made by Abraham Lincoln to the Washington Temperance Society. It’s why I think that Lancaster city councilwoman, Sherry Marquez, should make a real effort to befriend the Muslim members of her community, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Antelope Valley Press, Christians, friendship, God, Islam, Jesus, life, muhammad, Muslims, Politics, sherry marquez
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Are you a person of doubt or a person of faith?
Of course, you might be someone in between: a person committed to certain beliefs in excess of the empirical who nevertheless carries them, not with the triumphalism of certainty, but with the cross of doubt. But I nevertheless think that these two categories—the person of doubt and … Continue reading
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Is America a Christian Nation Founded by Christians?
No. Key players in the founding of America—such as Jefferson, Paine, and Franklin—were not Christians. They were Deists and religious skeptics. And other icons of America’s cultural history—people like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson—were agnostics with a lot of emotional ambivalence toward … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, apologetics, christian nation, Christianity, Emily Dickinson, God, James Dobson, Jesus, memes, the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine
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Abraham Lincoln: Atheist and Darwinist?
Not quite, but Lincoln seems to have flirted with Deism, entertained evolution, and had a decidedly ambivalent, sometimes even hostile, relationship to conservative Christian religion. Lincoln biographer Richard Lawrence Miller, writing in Free Inquiry earlier this year, says the following: For an isolated … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, atheism, atheist, Christianity, Darwin, deism, evolution, Genesis, God, philosophy, science, the Bible
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A Reading of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!”
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Tagged 1860s, Abraham Lincoln, jfk, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, poems, poetry, Robert Kennedy, Walt Whitman
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When Was Darwin Born?
Thursday, February 12, 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809, the same year that Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe were born. 2009 also marks the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s … Continue reading
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2009 May Be the YEAR of Lincoln and Darwin
Both Lincoln and Darwin were born in 1809, so expect a lot of retrospective reflection on these two figures throughout 2009. In the United States, Edgar Allan Poe might also get some attention—as I believe that he too was born … Continue reading
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Tagged 1809, 2009, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Darwin, edgar allan poe, evolution, lincoln, philosophy, poetry, Politics, science
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