Why do many Christians say there are no atheists in foxholes?

<-- Atheist in the military, right here.

But typically we don't use entrenched fighting positions as much as we used to, so really there aren't foxholes for us to be in at all. Usually.

AFAIK, the original mode of the argument was to allude to the fact that fear of death is a pretty major cornerstone of religious faith. It's quite similar to all the made-up death-bed conversion stories, all of which are fabrications, but ultimately based on the same basic principle.

The idea is that people tend to turn to magic and things that provide false hope (like a God or some other divine protection), when they're at their most fearful and most vulnerable and facing extreme threats to their safety. Similarly, when staring death in the face, the story is the same. Although believers seem to think that this is an argument in their favor since it suggests that even a staunch atheist might convert, it's really one that only demonstrates how irrational their position is. After all, if you are wracked with the fear of death, you're inherently overrun with emotion and not well prone to logic and reason. Anything you say or do in such a weak and cowering position is guaranteed to be the raving babblings of a man without his senses in order.

The real-world counterexamples to the aphorism itself are good cases of people who, even in the face of danger, kept their heads on straight. And sure enough, it shows that without the influence of emotional and intellectual weakness, there is no god for these people.

If you put me in a battlefield, I'm not going to put a bayonet on and charge at the enemy. I'm going to fire from my foxhole.

Just because I believe in God does not mean I am going to practically kill myself (major sin, by the way).

Plus, I personally don't believe God interferes much, if at all, in human affairs. I think life is a test for the afterlife, I don't know. I know there has to be a God of some sort though. Not necessarily how we think he is, a human-looking guy. Very possibly might even be an alien. But I still believe there's definitely a God.

Plus, as a patriot, I'd do as much as I can for my country. Live to fight another day. The object of war isn't to die for your country, but to make the other guy die for his. God wouldn't save my life if I don't take cover, because I don't think he's interfering in affairs. I do want to see my family again, I do want to prove myself worthy in this test we call life.

It should be required that every foxhole have at least one Atheist. That way if a foxhole has 4 christians and one Atheist there is one soldier that will defend that position until his/her last dying breath.

If they were surrounded and knew the enemy would breach the hole soon...the christians would all curl up like babies praying for their non-existent god to save them or asking it for forgiveness so they make it to heaven.

So it is up to the Atheist to keep on fighting until death...or possibly the Atheist holds the enemy off just long enough for reinforcements to arrive and the Atheist winds up saving all of the soldiers.

Of course if that happened...the christians would just claim their god DID save them anyway...LOL

There is a tendency to feel closest to God when all else has failed, when our need is greatest. Not defending this attitude, just mentioning it. Yes, there are atheists in foxholes, but also those of convenient faith.

It's because they're convinced, for some reason, that people who don't believe in gods actually really do believe in them (and specifically, the Christian God). They assume therefore that in a life-or-death situation, atheists won't be able to "hold out" and maintain their (claim of) lack of belief.

Because it fits their delusion. But it is a delusion too. The horrors of war lead many to conclude there is not god because they cannot imagine a god letting such things happen.

No atheists in foxholes, no Christians in porn-properties. i think of of it extremely is a outstanding commerce. yet then i've got have been given met an atheist conflict veteran, and he reported he replaced into regardless of if an atheist in the foxholes too. So per possibility it will be there are not any extra any agnostics in the foxholes. yet then we could desire to be offending that team... yet reason them to initiate their very own thread, somewhat?

Gay marriage got voted down so stop crying. Besides, atheists spend too much time not just talking about but complaining about something they believe doesn't exist.

They're too frightened to admit that people genuinely don't believe in their god, so they pretend that deep down, everyone believes.