Doing Politics Without God

So, God pretty much ends up on the cutting room floor. Unlike Lincoln, for whom leaving God out of the equation would have been simply unthinkable. And why is that? Because for Abraham Lincoln, along with practically everyone else in 19th-century America, God was not a parenthetical aside, not a fifth wheel, the turning of which only took place on Sundays in church. He was everywhere. Indeed, not the least of the places He inhabited was the Holy Book itself, where His self-revealing Word spoke to everyone in authoritative and unmistakable accent.  Read Full Article »