The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap is it not?
Religion you can't a handle on it you just have to know or not know-people...
It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable...
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.