Lincoln on Religion (Cont'd):

Comments made by Abraham Lincoln's friend and former law partner, William H. Herndon, shortly after Lincoln's death:

"Mr. Lincoln was an infidel, sometimes bordering on atheism."

"He never mentioned the name of Jesus, except to scorn and detest the idea of a miraculous conception."

"He did write a little work on infidelity in 1835-6, and never recanted. He was an out-and-out infidel, and about that there is no mistake."

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