While religious attendance in formal institutions in the united states is in decline, the number of americans claiming religious beliefs or spiritual awakenings has gone up. we can understand this paradox as?

Both stories have something in common

Was giving by lincoln on march 4, 1865-as lincoln prepared to speak, the civil war was drawing to a close-lincolns address of 703 words was the second shortest inaugural address-lincoln mentions god 14 times-505 of the words were one syllable -he used the word "war" or it's pronoun 9 times