Atheists in Fox Holes

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From the The Slacktivist.

"I don't really understand the saying, "There are no atheists in foxholes." The reality, as seen from the enduring cultural and theological repercussions of World War I, is rather that very few theists emerge from the trenches."

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Hard to say what I think here other than - yeah, that one phrase is an oversimplification of the vast array of how humans, in and out of uniform, will treat religion.

And that -- as in all cases where the vast depth and bredth of human spirituality is reduced to single sentence phrases for the purposes of telling me why, exactly, we need to have Christianity all over the Army as well as our civilian government -- it's utterly detestable.