It's not the Lincoln Memorial, it's the Lincoln Temple?

It's not the Lincoln Memorial, it's the Lincoln Temple?
- When I looked at 'liberalism' as a religion, I saw something else.

Numerous new natural law religions have emerged in modern times. Examples are liberalism, communism, capitalism, nationalism, and national socialism. They don't like to be called religion and call themselves ideologies.
- Yuval Harari, Sapiens

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was overwhelming, needless to say. More than what you see in the picture, the sense of prestige and grandeur that you feel when you look up and look up at someone far above you. (When I see the Lincoln statue in real life, it feels really different from the picture. Personally, I was more overwhelmed than when I saw the David statue in Florence.)

The girlfriend looked at the Lincoln stone statue of the memorial and said it felt more like a temple than a memorial.

The American people didn't expect to deify people, but they made Lincoln a god. One of my girlfriends and I agreed, and one of my girlfriends said, "Why is Lincoln the one who deified?"

The answer to this question is only my personal opinion. I'll write a book if my argument is not wrong, so I just want you to pass on thinking that this person thinks that way.

I found the answer to this question at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the Capitol. The main focus of the American Memorial is the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial is on the side.

The Declaration of Independence is written around the statue at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, which means that the founding ideology of the United States is human freedom and equality. And when you look at the political events explained by the Capitol, the liberation of slaves is considered one of the most important events in American political history.

In conclusion, I thought Lincoln was qualified to be the god of America (to be precise, of American liberalism) in that an independent, liberal-minded America was created, and an unfinished America completed American ideology by freeing black people from slavery.

(It's common sense to say that Lincoln united the United States, but if you disparage the Civil War, you need a president who suppressed the civil war to be infinitely high, and more reasons than that, and I think that's the completion of liberalism.)

In that sense, Lincoln became the god of the religion of liberalism because he completed the American ideology of freedom, and isn't American politics a battleground for priests to fight which doctrine is right over the doctrine of freedom?

However, regardless of freedom, Donald Trump, who suddenly put "Make America Great" as a catchphrase, seems absurd to existing politicians.

Yuval Harari's view of "liberalism" as a religion along with communism and nationalism, or Khomeini's reference to liberalism as "American religion" came to Washington, D.C.

On the same level, I felt that the United States, founded on liberalism, was at the same time in opposition from the perspective of the Soviet Union and modern philosophy, which were built on the basis of communist ideology (which was the latest philosophy at the time). So, the United States, like the Soviet Union, is a 'state created' based on the cutting-edge political theory of the time.

In conclusion, it is difficult to distinguish the liberalism of the United States that Koreans think of, especially elderly, from the capitalism that stands on the other side of communism, but the actual liberalism of the United States corresponds to liberalism in the political and philosophical sense. In that sense, Park Chung-hee, a political dictator, has no choice but to be a political leader who stands on the opposite side of American ideology.

(In order to bring Park Chung-hee in by citing freedom, Park Chung-hee must have reasonable grounds such as 'freeing the Korean people from poverty', but on the other side of communism, the logic of liberalism is so fundamental in political theory that it has no appeal.)

At the same time, it struck me with a completely new feeling how Syngman Rhee would have viewed the United States and how it would have felt to transplant the American democratic system into Korea.

I thought it was Syngman Rhee's intention to bring the 'most advanced political system in political theory' rather than bringing the system of the 'most powerful country'. And I got goosebumps thinking that Syngman Rhee felt the feeling I was feeling when I arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1904 and 120 years ago.

I thought a lot about liberalism, and if I think about what 'liberalism' is and reflect on our country in 2024, I ended up asking the question, 'What is freedom of Yoon Suk Yeol?'

Finally, because it's a review of my honeymoon, I would like to add that she heard everything I've written down and said, "It's funny," and I don't believe others say it's funny, but when she says it's funny, I really understand and she does, it's funny. It's one of the most important reasons I thought I should marry her.

(Photo by Lincoln Memorial and Thomas Jefferson Memorial)