WTF!
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/wisconsi...civil-war/
This line caught my eye.
Actually, moron. No.
And there is nothing truer in American politics than the fact that "the fools" need pleasing....witness today's republicunt party.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/wisconsi...civil-war/
Quote:Wisconsin Republican says marriage decision insults Christians who died in the ‘religious’ Civil War
This line caught my eye.
Quote:“Our president during the Civil War was, of course, Abraham Lincoln, who was known as the most biblical of presidents — somebody who quoted the Bible a lot,” Grothman said.
Actually, moron. No.
Quote:My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
-- Abraham Lincoln, to Judge James M Nelson, in response to a question from Nelson: "I once asked him about his fervent Thanksgiving Message and twitted him with being an unbeliever in what was published." Quoted from Franklin Steiner, The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents, p. 138
And there is nothing truer in American politics than the fact that "the fools" need pleasing....witness today's republicunt party.