This film is heartbreaking.

I’ve always found it amusing that Christians like this quote, because it can be interpreted in several ways that are not at all flattering to Christianity.

For instance, even if it were true that there are no atheists in foxholes, (which it isn’t), all this does is suggest that belief in God stems from anxiety about our own mortality. This actually supports the popular atheist position that religious belief is based on unconscious fears and desires.

Another possible interpretation is that there are no atheists in foxholes because atheists aren’t as violent and warlike as religious believers. Or that there are no atheists in foxholes because atheists are courageously fighting on the battlefield instead of cowering in the trenches.

If anything, this should be a popular quote among atheists, not Christians.

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Gai’s children — both with twisted limbs and confined to wheelchairs — were born in a village that was drenched with Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. She believes their health problems were caused by dioxin, a highly toxic chemical in the herbicide, which U.S. troops used to strip communist forces of ground cover and food.

Son Nguyen Tri Lam, foreground, and his sister Nguyen Thi Hang sit inside their family home in the town of Cam Lo, Vietnam. Both had their hands tied behind their backs to prevent them from biting their arms and hands and seriously hurting themselves. The two siblings were born with profound physical and mental disabilities that the family, and local officials, say were caused by their parents’ exposure to the chemical dioxin in the defoliant Agent Orange.

Military Cemetery in Verdun, France

photographed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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