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Religious views of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln in his late 30s as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. (Photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846.) Abraham Lincoln grew up in a highly religious Baptist family. He never joined any Church, and was a skeptic as a young man and sometimes ridiculed revivalists.
God Is Not Great (sometimes stylized as god is not Great) is a 2007 book by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens in which he makes a case against organized religion.It was originally published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion and in the United States by Twelve as God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, but was republished ...
Abraham Lincoln, painting by George Peter Alexander Healy in 1869. As a young man Lincoln was a religious skeptic. [345] He was deeply familiar with the Bible, quoting and praising it. [346] He was private about his position on organized religion and respected the beliefs of others. [347] He never made a clear profession of Christian beliefs. [348]
The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [9] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse, but also has entered Academic discourse. [10] [11] However, the term has also been criticized to be uncritically adapted.
Hitchens's razor. Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states " what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence ". [ 1][ 2][ 3] The razor was created by and later named after author and journalist Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011).
The War We Never Fought. The Rage Against God (subtitle in US editions: How Atheism Led Me to Faith) is the fifth book by Peter Hitchens, first published in 2010. The book describes Hitchens's journey from atheism, far-left politics, and bohemianism to Christianity and conservatism, detailing the influences on him that led to his conversion.
Abraham [a] (originally Abram [b]) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [7] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; [c] [8] and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic ...
Abraham Lincoln was a Deist; Six Historic Americans by John Remsburg, 1906, examines religious views of Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and Grant; U.S. Library of Congress site: James Hutson article, James Madison and the Social Utility of Religion