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NeoGreen

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Mon Jan 15, 2018, 08:31 AM Jan 2018

During the Hawaiian False Alarm, Atheists Didnt Suddenly Find God [View all]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/01/14/during-the-hawaiian-false-alarm-atheists-didnt-suddenly-find-god/




During the Hawaiian False Alarm, Atheists Didn’t Suddenly Find God
January 14, 2018 by Hemant Mehta

After a text message alert informed Hawaiians yesterday that they were under threat of a missile attack, it took 38 minutes before the alert was officially declared a false alarm.

That’s a lot of time to rethink your life decisions. That’s also a lot of time to rethink how confident you may be about the afterlife.

We’ve all heard the old (despicable) saying about how “there are no atheists in foxholes.” The idea is that, in the middle of a war zone, when your life is in danger, even atheists ask God to keep them safe. That’s not true, of course. There are plenty of atheists in the military and they don’t lose their ability to think rationally just because they end up in dangerous situations.

So yesterday raised an interesting test of that theory: After getting that text alert and before realizing it was a false alarm, did any atheists rethink their non-belief in God?
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