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If someone's shooting at you, you're going to make damn sure you take every measure possible to not get shot. There are no atheists in foxholes.
by toomanybeersies 10y ago
If someone's shooting at you, you're going to make damn sure you take every measure possible to not get shot.
There are no atheists in foxholes.
- anigbrowl 10y agoI don't get that phrase. I've been in a bunch of life-and-death situations and not once have I felt a sudden alteration in my religious views. I have to wonder whether it's an expression of anxiety on the part of the speaker rather than any sort of objective observation.
- JabavuAdams 10y ago> There are no atheists in foxholes. This is just a thing that people say that doesn't stand up to even cursory scrutiny.
- vacri 10y agoHowever being in a foxhole is an entirely artificial situation, and people in foxholes aren't known for their long-range planning and forethought. If you're being shelled, you're not going to be thinking about whether you can service a new mortgage and whether you should refinance, for example.
- Pica_soO 10y agoI wonder, if you put a mathematician specializing in statistics into a foxhole, what are the odds he becomes a believer?