Sentences with phrase «foxhole religion»

But once, during the war, the editors pondered foxhole religion and the fact that «every analyst of religious trends in wartime notes a quickening of interest in religion in the minds of many persons who have hitherto been indifferent to it.

This phenomenon of «foxhole religion» can be summarized in the old ditty, «And bos»n Bill was an atheist still, except sometimes in the dark.»