The church of Lincoln isn’t going to like that.
On Good Friday we really ought to dig up quotes equating Lincoln with Christ that you can find his contemporaries uttering.
Boston Transcendentalists, Unitarians, abolitionists, socialists were good for that kind of stuff. In some cases they said he was better than Christ. That may be popular in some quarters even today.
Someone once pointed out that the ever popular Battle Hymn of Republic is basically a gnostic celebration of a God-like federal government meting out divine judgement on the rebel heretics who richly deserve being slaughtered. You piss off that god at your own peril.
Wow. That was a courageous post. Hope you have your flame retardant suit on.
The Yankees had their ugly nasty Battle Hymn. We Southerners had catchy tunes like “Dixie” and fun little ditties like “Eatin’ Goober Peas”. :)
So who’s more fun, and who’s all dour? We Southerners know!