Last night on The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert–in his phony pundit persona, of course– mentioned that he’d visited Beliefnet.com (where he goes, he said, “after sinning on other sites”) and found our Atheists in Foxholes article by Rebecca Phillips.

Upset by the phrase “there are no atheists in foxholes,” Colbert argued that it is atheists who should be in foxholes, since they’re “not afraid to go to hell and be tortured by Satan for all eternity (which is what’s going to happen),” and so that good Christian boys can stay safe at home.

— Posted by Lisa Schneider

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