Lincoln as secular saint

[Eva Elisabeth]

Angela - thank you for your input (I, too, would like to read the article!) May I ask you - do we have such mystification of "earthly" leaders or other significant achievers or role models in Germany? Can you think of any comparable example (my mind is blank)? I have often thought about this. If not, why? Are we less emotional or don't we dare anymore to be, or have we simply had no one over that many "years"?