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→‎Afterwards and religious beliefs: "great admirer" -> qualified admirer. See epilogue to Fates_Worse_than_Death.
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In ''Hocus Pocus'' one of his characters is disrespectful of those with faith, rebutting the observation of "there were no atheists in foxholes" with the comment, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."<ref>[http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_KVonnegut.htm Kurt Vonnegut, ''Hocus Pocus'', pg. 182]</ref> Also, in later writings Vonnegut referred to conservative Christians as "not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians".<ref>http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=38_0_4_0_C</ref> Concerning the saying "[[There Are No Atheists In Foxholes|There are no atheists in foxholes]]", Vonnegut said, “People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.”<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/186949-people-say-there-are-no-atheists-in-foxholes-a-lot Kurt Vonnegut quote]</ref>
 
In ''Hocus Pocus'' one of his characters is disrespectful of those with faith, rebutting the observation of "there were no atheists in foxholes" with the comment, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."<ref>[http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_KVonnegut.htm Kurt Vonnegut, ''Hocus Pocus'', pg. 182]</ref> Also, in later writings Vonnegut referred to conservative Christians as "not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians".<ref>http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=38_0_4_0_C</ref> Concerning the saying "[[There Are No Atheists In Foxholes|There are no atheists in foxholes]]", Vonnegut said, “People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.”<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/186949-people-say-there-are-no-atheists-in-foxholes-a-lot Kurt Vonnegut quote]</ref>
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A detailed analysis of Vonnegut's later religious views found him to be a great admirer of [[Christianity]], but not [[Christian]] himself.  Dan Wakefield observed,
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A detailed analysis of Vonnegut's later religious views found him to be a qualified admirer of [[Christianity]], but not [[Christian]] himself.  Dan Wakefield observed,
 
:"Except for [[John Updike]], a confessed Christian, and [[James Baldwin]], who had been a junior minister at a [[Pentecostal]] church as a boy in [[Harlem]], it is hard to think of any other leading writer of the era who mentioned [[Jesus]] at all, except as a curse word."<ref>Wakefield, Dan (July 11, 2015 or bef.). [https://imagejournal.org/article/kurt-vonnegut/ "Kurt Vonnegut, Christ-Loving Atheist"]. ''Image'', no. 82.</ref>
 
:"Except for [[John Updike]], a confessed Christian, and [[James Baldwin]], who had been a junior minister at a [[Pentecostal]] church as a boy in [[Harlem]], it is hard to think of any other leading writer of the era who mentioned [[Jesus]] at all, except as a curse word."<ref>Wakefield, Dan (July 11, 2015 or bef.). [https://imagejournal.org/article/kurt-vonnegut/ "Kurt Vonnegut, Christ-Loving Atheist"]. ''Image'', no. 82.</ref>
  
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