To: MineralMan
If you think one example disproves the statement, you're not understanding it. The point of that saying is not that THERE ARE NEVER ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES EVER EVER. "There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an absolute statement; it's hyperbole to make a point.
47 posted on
08/01/2006 2:21:28 PM PDT by
Irish Rose
(Will work for chocolate.)
To: Irish Rose
"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an absolute statement; it's hyperbole to make a point.
Yes. An incorrect point.
To: Irish Rose
"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an absolute statement It most certainly is an absolute statement, unless the word "no" (or perhaps the word "is") has some hitherto unknown meaning.
343 posted on
08/02/2006 1:08:34 PM PDT by
steve-b
("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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