378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
The Realignment
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The Origins of Atheism in the 19th Century
In the 1840s, everything from like germ theory to how the cosmos works are just not quite as clear as they inherently would be. For Lincoln, he believed that when you died, you died, that was it. There was no belief in some sort of intelligent being. This is what makes him so unique because this is just not a belief that most people held in this period. It would have been really out of step.
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