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Atheists & Agnostics

SCantiGOP

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9. re the "No atheists in a foxhole" idea

Reply to trotsky (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 30, 2018, 01:40 PM

Jan 2018

I always saw that as a argument against religious belief. Someone doesn't believe, but at a time of extreme emotional distress, and facing the end of their existence, they suddenly embrace a deity. That would seem to me to indicate that religious belief is a profoundly emotional response rather than something that could be analyzed and justified by reason and careful consideration.

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"No atheists in foxholes" is a trope believed only by insecure religionists. trotsky Jan 2018 #7

same here RussBLib Jan 2018 #8

re the "No atheists in a foxhole" idea SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #9

That's a very good point. n/t trotsky Jan 2018 #10

You know, even if they did, it would just be a temporary lower-brain survival mechanism lindysalsagal Mar 2018 #11