They paraphrased Harvard professor Jeffrey Frankel, who originally wrote in the Cato Journal a year earlier, "They say 'there are no atheists in foxholes.' Perhaps, then, there are also no libertarians in crises." The sentence is also quoted in the Gustav Hasford's novel The Short-Timers. In September 2008, in the depths of the financial crisis of 2007–2010, both Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman popularized a version of the quote in reference to financial crises. The quote has also been used in non-military contexts. The quote is also referenced when discussing the opposite effect - that warfare causes some soldiers to question their existing belief in God due to the death and violence around them. Although the adage occasionally means that all soldiers in combat are "converted" under fire, it is most often used to express the belief of the speaker that all people seek a divine power when they are facing an extreme threat.
While primarily used to comment on the experiences of combat soldiers, the aphorism has been adapted to other perilous situations, as in "There are no atheists in probate court". With slightly different wording, the statement appears much earlier in press reports dating from the end of the First World War, while a similar concept has been sought in Plato's Laws, and in Karl Marx's often-misrepresented partial quote that "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. Eisenhower in remarks broadcast from the White House as part of a February 7, 1954, American Legion Program. It was also quoted by President Dwight D. The phrase is often attributed to war correspondent Ernie Pyle however, no such source published prior to Pyle's death is known. Clear (or the anonymous sergeant he spoke with there), who was also at Bataan and published the usage in 1942 or Lieutenant Colonel William Casey. Other sources credit Lieutenant Colonel Warren J. military chaplain William Thomas Cummings may have said it in a field sermon during the Battle of Bataan in 1942, though scholars have been unable to find a firsthand witness to the sermon. The origin of the quotation is uncertain. #what.The statement is an aphorism used to argue that people will believe in, or hope for, a higher power in times of fear or stress, such as during war ("in foxholes"). #yeah and i loved every deranged second #tfc #THATS WHAT THE FOXHOLE COURT WAS? #I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE. #good times #well i say 'good' #what i mean is 'what were we all drinking so much of?' #'does anyone remember?' op how could i forget the chokehold those books had on me
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REDDIT THE FOXHOLE COURT SERIES
Oh and to be clear this series was not set in japan, the japanese mafia just owned an american college sports team and was super invested in it for some reason if I didn't remember it so clearly I would assume I hallucinated this this was literally the most popular book series on tumblr and was put on book rec lists alongside like, the great gatsby and donna tartt books. and then every single subsequent thing that happened was somehow more batshit soap opera plotlines. for awhile the biggest thing on tumblr was a self published book series that no one outside of this website has ever heard of and that was never even published in physical form about a guy who fakes his name, age (by one year) and identity to join a sports team for a fake sport that the author invented for the series despite the fact that it was literally just lacrosse, after being on the run and changing his name hundreds of times because his mobster dad tried to sell him to a rival sports team that was actually owned by the japanese mafia. Does anyone else remember the foxhole court bc that was so insane.
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