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[[File:Foxhole.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Reverend William T. Cummings is famous for declaring ''There are no atheists in foxholes''.<ref name="listserv">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080617035633/http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696 Archived Discussion on Linguist List - Listserve]</ref>]]
 
[[File:Foxhole.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Reverend William T. Cummings is famous for declaring ''There are no atheists in foxholes''.<ref name="listserv">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080617035633/http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696 Archived Discussion on Linguist List - Listserve]</ref>]]
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Reverend William T. Cummings, who served at Bataan, is famous for declaring "'''There are no atheists in foxholes'''."<ref name="listserv" />  The exact origin of the phrase "There Are No Atheists In Foxholes" is unclear, but it appears to be of [[World War I]] origin.
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Reverend William T. Cummings, who served at Bataan, is famous for declaring "'''There are no atheists in foxholes'''."<ref name="listserv" />  The exact origin of the phrase "There Are No [[Atheism|Atheists]] In Foxholes" is unclear, but it appears to be of [[World War I]] origin.
 
<ref>[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/02/foxhole/ There Are No Atheists in Foxholes], Quote Investigator website</ref><ref>[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-there-are-no-atheists-in-a-foxhole/articleshow/4167370.cms What is the origin of the phrase 'there are no atheists in a foxhole'?], ''Times of India'', February 22, 2009</ref>
 
<ref>[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/02/foxhole/ There Are No Atheists in Foxholes], Quote Investigator website</ref><ref>[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-there-are-no-atheists-in-a-foxhole/articleshow/4167370.cms What is the origin of the phrase 'there are no atheists in a foxhole'?], ''Times of India'', February 22, 2009</ref>
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Chaplain F.W. Lawson of the 302d Machine Gun Battalion, who was wounded twice in wartime, declared "I doubt if there is such a thing as an [[Atheism|atheist]]. At least there isn't in a front line trench."<ref name="listserv" /> Hannah More wrote: "In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to [[God]]."<ref>[http://christian-quotes.ochristian.com/Hannah-More-Quotes/ Hannah More quotes]</ref>
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Chaplain F.W. Lawson of the 302d Machine Gun Battalion, who was wounded twice in wartime, declared "I doubt if there is such a thing as an atheist. At least there isn't in a front line trench."<ref name="listserv" /> Hannah More wrote: "In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to [[God]]."<ref>[http://christian-quotes.ochristian.com/Hannah-More-Quotes/ Hannah More quotes]</ref>
    
President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] declared in remarks broadcast from the [[White House]] as part of a February 7, 1954 American Legion Program:
 
President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] declared in remarks broadcast from the [[White House]] as part of a February 7, 1954 American Legion Program:
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