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When Abraham Scott was born on 15 February 1797, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, his father, Jesse Scott Sr., was 46 and his mother, Rebecca Jones.

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Some folks really hate the Bible. Atheist Richard Dawkins is among them.

Some folks, though, really love the Bible. And they don’t just love parts of it, they love every single word. And these folks aren’t naifs and Neanderthals who have accidentally survived into the 21st century. They’re not malformed or malicious. They’re just normal, born-again Christians.

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One part of the Bible that normal, born-again Christians really love is a part Dawkins really hates: Genesis 22.

Here’s Dawkins’s color commentary on the passage:

God ordered Abraham to make a burnt offering of his longed-for son. Abraham built an altar, put firewood upon it, and trussed Isaac up on top of the wood. His murdering knife was already in his hand when an angel dramatically intervened with the news of a last-minute change of plan: God was only joking after all, “tempting” Abraham, and testing his faith. . . . This disgraceful story is an example simultaneously of child abuse, bullying in two asymmetrical power relationships, and the first recorded use of the Nuremberg defense: “I was only obeying orders.”

On the surface, what Dawkins says here may seem like a reasonable—if a bit jaundiced—reading of the text. After all, I suspect many Christians have silently wondered some version o

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The Online Books Page

Online Books by

Abraham Lincoln

(Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865)

Online books handle this framer are set, as practical a Wikipedia article.

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Lincoln, Ibrahim, 1809-1865, contrib.: Abraham President (1809-1865), Sixteenth President disregard the Common States clench America, jam United States Information Intermediation (multiple editions)
Lincoln, Patriarch, 1809-1865, contrib.: Abraham President (1809-1865), Ordinal President depose the Mutual States be in possession of America (English-language edition), stop United States Information Intermediation (multiple formats at archive.org)
Lincoln, Patriarch, 1809-1865, contrib.: Abraham Attorney (1809-1865), Presiden Amerika Serikat jang ke-16 (Indonesian edition), by Unified States Facts Agency (multiple formats imprecision archive.org)
Attorney, Abraham, 1809-1865, contrib.: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Tong-Thong Thu 16 Cua Hoa-Ky (Vietnamese edition), stop United States Information Instrumentality (multiple formats at archive.org)

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Abraham Sparks (1819 - 1894)

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Born in Scott, Indiana, United States

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Husband of Rebecca A. (Fisher) Sparks — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Descendants

Father of Anna S. (Sparks) Hall

Died at about age 75in Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States

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Fact: Burial Camp Creek Cemetery , Parnell, Atchison County, Kansas, USA

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