Atheists in Fox Holes

[pyat]

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."

Comments

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Maltheism is theism too.

What's the Russian saying?

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

And for whatever reason, I've always thought of the original aphorism as relating to actual foxes in actual holes–the baying of dogs being the oncoming awareness of a meaningless and cruel death, etc etc...