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Early InfluencesAbraham Lincoln grew up during the Second Great Awakening,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an era in which Protestant Evangelists would deliver fiery sermons at campsites all over the U.S. in hopes of converting the masses to their way of thinking. Lincoln's parents were strict Calvinistic Baptists. They believed in fatalism and predestination. In other words,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the future sixteenth president grew up around those who believed that God, not humanity, controlled peoples' fates. This view would stick with Lincoln. For example, he often quoted Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends/ Rough-hew them how we will." More importantly, attending these revivals exposed Abe to the art of debating.
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Abraham Lincoln
Raised in early nineteenth-century frontier America, young Abraham Lincoln was saturated with fire-and-brimstone religion. As a young man,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Lincoln developed a disdain for organized religion. Later in his life, he became a believer in the existence of a higher power. On his road to the presidency, he formulated a unique concept of God that would ultimately shape his political policies.
Youthful RebellionAs he came of age, Abe decided that he did not share many of his parents' religious views. He became an advocate for reason over feeling as well as an avowed free-thinker. According to Abe's close friend William Herndon, Abe often openly questioned the divinity of Christ and frequently publicly lampooned Evangelical Christianity and its prominent figures. One of Abe's favorite books was Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, which ridiculed the tenets of organized religion.
From Scoffer to BelieverLater, Lincoln underwent a transformation and became very spiritual,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], although he never affiliated himself with a particular denomination and was not a church-goer. Lincoln always loved the Bible for its characters and stories as opposed to its message of Christian salvation. As president, he always kept a Bible on his desk. Interestingly, Lincoln's writings of the 1850s and 60s indicate a growing belief that a higher power is indeed in control of peoples' lives. This shift was more than likely the result of the deaths of two of Lincoln's children and the grief he felt in regards to the increasing number of lives lost in the Civil War. Lincoln's Civil War-era writings also reveal a man trying to reconcile the two distinct images of God: the vengeful Old Testament deity versus the pacifistic Christ of the New Testament.
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