Re:"Your criticisms are completely wrong": Stallman on softw...
by luser001 on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @12:15PM
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I used to think this until I read book The Long Pursuit. It's highly likely that Lincoln thought slavery was intrinsically bad.
It's a thin-ish book and I highly recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Pursuit-Lincolns-Thirty-Year/...
But if this is the case, then it was his belief in his country that motivated him and that qualifies Lincoln as a believer. In my mind that was enough to not delete his name after typing it. :)