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...bearded man in the stovepipe hat seems much like a hologram, a medium for our fears and fantasies. Recent claims that Lincoln was gay--based on a tortured misreading of conventional 19th century sleeping arrangements--resemble the long-standing efforts to draft the famously nonsectarian man for one Christian denomination or another. Over the years, he has been trotted out to support everything from communism and feminism to prohibitionism and vegetarianism. But if a figure can be made to stand for everything, does he really mean anything...
...said, the better," doubting that the pious Holland would want the details of Lincoln's unorthodox history. How, for example, Lincoln had doubted the divinity of Christ and the infallibility of the Bible. "Oh, never mind," Holland said. "I'll fix that"--and his book made Lincoln a model Christian...
...illogical. He hopes it will end the gridlock created by the opposition-controlled Bundesrat (upper house) and the government-controlled Bundestag (lower house). But if his Social Democrats win, the situation is likely to remain the same. What he should do is form a grand coalition with the opposition Christian Democrats until the constitutional end of the Social Democrats' term, in 2006. That would help break the gridlock. Alfred Jung Gau-Bischofsheim, Germany...
...first thorough analysis of Christian Identity doctrine and history will appear next month in a report by Leonard Zeskind of Kansas City, research director with the Center for Democratic Renewal (formerly the National Anti-Klan Network). Zeskind says the Identity system "provides religious unity for differing racist political groups and brings religious people into contact with the racist movement...
...taken to heaven in a "rapture" and escape calamities preceding Jesus Christ's Second Coming. But the Identity movement tells believers they must endure these dire events and prepare by taking military and survival training and stockpiling weapons and food. John Harrell of Louisville, Ill., wealthy head of the Christian Patriots Defense League, who teaches that "Caucasians are the most proven, most capable" of racial groups, recommends that every family of followers "have a 12-gauge shotgun, a .22 rifle and at least 500 rounds of ammunition...