378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
The Realignment
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Lincoln's Representation of the 19th Century
Lincoln is in many ways what you want to think of as America in the 19th century. He's irreligious in a world full of evangelical Christians. Even when he does develop some faith during his presidency, he's not moving in the direction of most Americans toward a personal relationship with a knowable God through Christ or anything like that. But we like to view him as representatives.
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