Lincoln and religion

[My Name Is Kate]

After all Lincoln had been through, not the least of which was the Civil War, I can't see him not having faith in a God who takes a personal interest in the welfare of human beings and all of creation. He probably also had alot of anger and doubts, but what would be the alternative...belief in the survival of the fittest? Or the creature being morally superior to the Creator? If that were the case, there would be no need to worry about the consequences of one's actions as long as one got away with it here on earth. That would make for one scary, dangerous leader.

I imagine that Lincoln did alot of thinking about the nature of God. He must have felt a tremendous burden of responsibility for the deaths of so many soldiers, and he must have wondered how God felt about it. Maybe it occurred to him that, for reasons unknown to us, God was not able to step in and prevent the war, or end it sooner than it ended. Perhaps he realized that if God really did care about human beings, He must have felt even worse than Lincoln did about all the suffering. Maybe he realized that God does intervene in our lives, but usually not in the ways we wish for.