词汇 | there are no atheists in foxholes |
词源 | there are no atheists in foxholes. There has been controversy about this phrase, but most sources attribute it to Father Wil- liam Thomas Cummings, a Catholic priest who in 1942 deliv- ered it in a field sermon on Bataan. Atheism derives from the Greek atheos, “without,” plus theos, God: “without God.” |
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