Goodbye Kurt Vonnegut, You Were a Seriously Cool Dude

[Alex]

Poking around to confirm my recollection that Vonnegut was an atheist (and thus my previous post) and I stumbled upon Conservapedia. I wondered what they had to say and it is just bizarre.

Vonnegut has described himself as an atheist,[1]

And then the footnote says "Some question whether Kurt Vonnegut was an atheist..." because surely Vonnegut wouldn't know.

And I liked this:

He attributed his atheism to having studied anthropology, yet he has been often respectful of those with faith, such as observing that "there were no Atheists in foxholes."

That footnote for that last part links to a quote from Hocus Pocus that reads, in full:

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."

I'm sure that Vonnegut was generally polite in the face of other's faith, but that quote doesn't say what the writer apparently thinks it says.