Atheists in Foxholes

[Secular Elf]

I'd like to sincerely commend Secular Elf for his refreshingly mature response to a rules violation.  So many new people come here, go link-crazy, and get all snotty when the mods call them on it.

Well done, SE.  I hope you stick around.

Boru

Thank you Boru.  When I am right, I am right; when I am in the wrong, I am elf enough to admit it.  I plan on sticking around as long as I got breath in me. 

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You check your rifle, you check your sights,check your water, hope that the indirect is dialed in (when you have it), and maybe, just maybe, you wonder whether or not the great god AGM is hovering overhead for epic justice!  Failing, that, perhaps one of his lesser angels....

Some nutballs might need the armor of heaven to feel protected, but if I can get all of that - Imma strap on a kevlar cup and shout "Hooah"  

As Spooky commented upon...there are all types of folks in foxholes.  Imma be honest, I don't recall ever having gotten into a discussion about god while in a position.  It's anecdotal, wouldn't take it to mean much, other than the fact that soldiers can, sometimes,, have more pressing things on their minds.  I think this "no atheists in foxholes" nonsense, much like the vast majority of today's holiday...is for civilians, not joes.  When shit gets rough, we don't drop our weapons and pray to some fucking god to save us.....not even the believers do that......

I have never been in the military, so I can't say what people actually do in a foxhole under fire, other than imagine that I would be doing my best to survive and still hold my position, or whatever else I was ordered to do at that moment.  I have the greatest respect for veterans and our fallen dead.  My father fought in WWII, Pacific theater, New Guniea and Australia. He always told the family about his experiences during that war.  His troop was in training to invade Japan weeks before the A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  As awful as that event was, it was due to the decision by the then generals and President to have that done that my father survived and met my mom a few years later and had us kids.  I am thankful for that decision that I and my siblings are alive and I am sitting here typing on my keyboard this moment and not some imaginary invisible friend in the sky.