This may reveal the depth of my ignorance, but earlier this week as I was at work in the computer lab, I'd overheard a couple other gentlemen in deep conversation on Abraham Lincoln. Don't know how the conversation led to that, don't know what the main subject was, but what I did hear was they both thought very highly of Lincoln and one had commented about his Christian beliefs and the other stammered a bit and said there was some contraversy about whether he was or wasn't a Christian due to his issue with the topic of hell. He went on to explain, hesitantly, like he was trying to find a polite way to put it, but he said there are claims that Lincoln was a supporter of Universal Salvation. To that the other guy smirked and shook his head and stated "Yeah, I've met one or two of "those" types in my life. . ." they both shared a religious laugh and moved on.
But I was quite interested in checking into this further. So I got on the internet just now and did some digging. I found this very revealing article on him and lo and behold . . .guess where the article originated from?
http://www.tentmaker.org/biographies/lincoln.htm
But after rewriting the heading topic in the search box, I found that there are MANY sites that support this thinking. Blew me away. Abraham Lincoln was a universalist. I did not know that.
Yeah there s a bit of info on the website I post below. This site belonged to a member here.
http://www.lincolntogo.net/faith.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=556-YcjJYhkC&pg=PA413&lpg=PA413&dq=abraham+lincoln+universal+salvation&source=bl&ots=UpRhBUF2kX&sig=dhBN1Z0xU9a9JrNR76-_W872Ca8&hl=en&ei=4TsfTsW2Hc7RsgalmrWKAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=abraham%20lincoln%20universal%20salvation&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=556-YcjJYhkC&pg=PA413&lpg=PA413&dq=abraham+lincoln+universal+salvation&source=bl&ots=UpRhBUF2kX&sig=dhBN1Z0xU9a9JrNR76-_W872Ca8&hl=en&ei=4TsfTsW2Hc7RsgalmrWKAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=abraham%20lincoln%20universal%20salvation&f=false
http://www.studyshelf.com/art_pilkington_lincoln.pdf
I guess John Wilkes Booth was a fundy. :winkgrin: