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    How did Abraham Lincoln view religion, Jews? - opinion

    Lincoln often championed the rights of Jewish Americans, many of whom he counted among his closest friends.

    By KENNETH LASSON
     It is well known that Abraham Lincoln was a man of many parts, not the least of which were his religious beliefs.
    Though a skeptic as a young man, Lincoln seldom shared his views on religion, except occasionally to ridicule revivalists and express his decidedly unorthodox opinions, such as on the innate depravity of man.
    But on the afternoon of August 12, 1861 – exactly six months after Lincoln’s fifty-second birthday and a few fortnights since the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina – Lincoln solemnly called for a national day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. 
    “It is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation,” said the characteristically shy president, “and in sorrowful remem