Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on Good Friday in April of 1865 caused the New England clergy to immediately declare him to be a god. From Professor Ludwell Johnson of William and Mary College, in and essay entitled “The Lincoln Puzzle: Searching for the Real Honest Abe”: “For many, Lincoln became a symbolic Christ, for some, perhaps, more than symbolic. They could scarcely help themselves, the parallels were so striking. He was the savior of the Union, God’s chosen instrument for bringing the millenium to suffering humanity, born in a log cabin (close enough to a stable), son of a carpenter. . … Continue reading A Good Friday