Are you tired of reading the Bible or one of the other Good Books? Do they not “do anything” for you anymore? Well, then, read the Gettysburg Address instead- the real “American Gospel.” That’s the message of a new book (The Gettysburg Gospel) by Gettysburg College’s Gabor Boritt, featured recently on the front cover of Newsweek. Never mind that Lincoln himself did not believe in God and even ridiculed those who did. The “American Gospel,” as Boritt calls the Gettysburg Address, defines the “religion” of the U.S. government, the “good news of a free people,” according to Boritt.
Boritt does not deny that Lincoln was a non-believer. “He would not join a church, could not embrace the Christian conception of sin and redemption, kept mostly silent about Jesus, and showed no inclination to build a personal relationship with God,” he writes in Newsweek. He “rejected, even ridiculed” the Calvinism of his parents. But Lincoln was a master politician, once defined by Murray Rothbard as one who is “a masterful liar, conniver, and manipulator.” There has never been anyone better at it than Lincoln.
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