AL and God

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Some time ago CNN came with a study of Dr. Christopher F Silver of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga , concerning 6 types of non-believers: (1) the intellectual atheist (rejecting God on intellectual /scientific grounds), (2) the activist (not content with just disbelieving in God and he wants to tell others why he reject Him), (3) the seeker-agnostic (unsure about the existence of God but keeping an open mind), (4) the anti-theist (he is opposed to religious ideology and is speaking out against religion and religious beliefs), (5) the non-theist (not involved with either religion or anti-religion) and (6) the ritual atheist (he does not believe in God, and does not associate himself with religion, he also believes there is no afterlife, but still finds the teachings of some religious traditions useful). Was Lincoln a “type 6” non-believer? According to Silver type 6 is seeing religious teachings as more or less philosophical teachings of how to live life and achieve happiness than as a path to transcendental liberation.