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Lincoln was a politician, a very good one, who abandoned the Whigs and became a Republican, and is credited with saving the Union. At the point of the bayonet, and the suspension of Habeas corpus...I might add.
Perhaps a master politician could have accomplished the same without becoming complicit in one of the bloodiest civil wars in modern history, perhaps the die was already set.
But the man was not a deity. And whenever society elevates one to the position of a deity, they eliminate any rational criticism of their newly created god.
I kind of like to look at my gods warts and all...being I've never seen any wisdom in bowing to a myth.
Chas
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