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"There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. ... My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was contended everywhere that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel." - Abraham Lincoln
On Good Friday, 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at the Ford Theater in the nation’s capitol city. Some say that just before John Wilkes Booth fired his .44 Derringer point blank into the back of the President’s head, Lincoln had been ignoring the play and was talking with his wife about a possible visit to the Holy Land. With the long Civil War nearly over (the last Confederate general would not surrender until over two months later), Lincoln wanted to make a pilgrimage to see first-hand where Jesus was born, lived, taught and was crucified.
If this story is accurate, and these were the last thoughts of Lincoln, we have a quandary. Lincoln was never a member of any church. Beyond that, he seemed at one time to have rejected the Bible and Christianity altogether. Will the authentic Abe Lincoln please stand up to his full height of 6 feet 4 inches? CLICK ON THE IMAGE below to continue reading:
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