Tag Archive: No Atheists in Foxholes

May 24 2013

Atheists are brave in war but not in life

According to some So sometimes I will listen to talk radio on the AM stations. You know, the ones that play Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and the always comical Glen Beck. I don’t actually listen to those shows most of the time because I feel like my brain is melting…but I do listen to some of …

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Jul 29 2012

Removing Christian privilege from “God’s Army”

Allah's Army, not god's army

I made this in the hopes that it can be useful for removing that smug Christian privilege we occasionally see in the military. Usage: “You’re so right. There are no atheists in foxholes. There are only good little Muslims.” It’s not ‘islamophobic’. Rather, it plays off the target’s standard xenophobia. The same xenophobia that causes them …

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Mar 15 2012

Have a good day

I get email, too: There are no atheists in foxholes buddy they all cry out to God when the shells are raining in. To hold an antheist event on a military post is unacceptable. Leave people alone and quit pushing your views on people. Without GOD our country wouldnt be what it is today and …

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Jan 29 2012

“If the bullets were flying your way faggot boy…”

screenshot from the Rock the Fort website

I receive email. Craig Campbell writes: why can’t you just live and let live,i bet you if the bullets were flying your way faggot boy you’d be praying cockbite,so justin go fuck yourself and its too bad your a minority How do I even ‘pray cockbite’? If I catch a religious soldier praying cockbite when bullets …

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Nov 02 2011

Hill Street Blues actor Daniel J. Travanti needs help, seriously.

I didn’t realize he had gone off he wagon, but Daniel Travanti, of 80′s Cop drama ’Hill Street Blues’ fame needs to go back to group / treatment. Last week he was contacting brave Florida atheist activist, EllenBeth Wachs. But he let out a bizarre rant, ‘no atheists in foxholes’ canard in check. EllenBeth and I …

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Oct 27 2011

80′s TV show “Hill Street Blues” star’s incoherent anti-atheist rant

Daniel J Travanti needs help

This morning, I told you about Daniel J. Travanti’s bizarre rant against prominent Florida atheist, EllenBeth Wachs. Somewhere through his type-stumbling, he managed to claim there were no atheists in foxholes. But he didn’t say it like that. He referred to it as something he was famous for telling General Patton (who died when Daniel …

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Oct 27 2011

Hill Street Blues actor Daniel Travanti disparages atheists in foxholes

athiests-in-foxholes = argument against foxholes

EllenBeth Wachs, the Florida atheist who has been harassed and arrested by a religious zealot in the Polk County Sherriff’s Dept recently shared something with me. It involves B-list Hollywood actor Daniel Travanti of Hill Street Blues ’fame’. He played Captain Frank Furillo, if you were trying to remember this ‘Where are they now’ thespian. Apparently he sent a …

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Oct 22 2011

Kurt Vonnegut on Atheists in Foxholes

Kurt Vonnegut quote about Atheists in Foxholes

A friend left this quote on my facebook wall. “The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, “There’s a chaplain who never visited the front.” -Kurt Vonnegut Hocus Pocus

Aug 12 2011

There are only atheists in foxholes.

Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themseleves from the bullets whizzing by? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.

Jul 27 2011

My first act as Military Director of American Atheists

I was just appointed the Military Director of American Atheists, Inc. I’m extremely proud and grateful for the opportunity to ‘play in the big leagues’. Alas, I must start out with a bang: The death of “No atheists in foxholes”.

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