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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So...whenever religious people talk amongst ourselves about stuff like this, I have literally never heard anyone put down atheists or even reference atheists at all.. Not even, "at least I'll feel smug that I wasn't an atheist!" No religious person talks like that, unless they are a cartoon on TV or an actual fanatic. Most people who are believers (and also not fanatic Christian evangelists, which most of us aren't) are happy to just let atheists do their thing and never bring it up.[/quote]

[b]There are all sorts of variations on the idea that there are no atheists in foxholes. It comes up repeatedly. I've heard it individually as well as in movies, books, everywhere. There are plenty of religious people who are rather loud about their conviction that dying atheists find god just before death. Surely you have heard this before?[/b][/quote]

Atheist here who actually believes that the whole "no atheists in foxholes" is largely true, but so what?  I myself am a pretty strong atheist yet[b] I will catch myself praying when I'm in strong turbulence on an airplane.[/b]  This is not a true "finding God" experience however.  It just shows that when people are in a desperate situation they will grasp to whatever hope they can muster.  It certainly not evidence that God actually exists. [/quote]

Just because you do it, doesn't mean it's "largely true." [b]There is a whole organization of Military atheists who make it clear that there ARE atheists in foxholes[/b].

I've never prayed during airplane turbulence -- even when I was a believer. I didn't think God caused it and didn't think he would get us out of it. But that's just me.[/quote]

Seriously?  What is this organization of Military atheists who are trying to spread the word that there are no atheists in foxholes?  I've never heard of this group.[/quote]

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