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This clip from 1864. Lincoln's friend, Joshua Speed, found Lincoln reading the Bible.

"I am glad to see you so profitably engaged," said Speed.
"I am profitably engaged," replied Lincoln.
"Well," said Speed, "If you have recovered from your skepticism (of religion), I have not."
Lincoln replied, "You are wrong, Speed. Take all of this book upon reason that you can and the balance on faith and you will live and die a happier man."

Claims that Lincoln was an athiest or scoffed at religion or people who were religious are not supported by the facts.

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John T. Stuart, Lincoln's first law partner: "He was an avowed and open infidel, and sometimes bordered on Atheism...He went further against Christian beliefs and doctrines and principles than any man I ever heard."

Joseph Lewis quoting Lincoln in a 1924 speech in New York: " The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."