Atheists in foxholes.
Tim was a charismatic, likeable young Cracker whose father had been a fundamentalist preacher. He had an uncanny physical resemblance to modern-day actor Matthew McConaughey. We were friends and roommates while we were in college in the 1970s.
I asked him once how his strict Baptist upbringing could be reconciled with his hippy-dippy politics and lifestyle. His response was; "I was taught at home the key message of Christianity was 'Love God or he will burn you'."
To this day I don't know whether or not he was an atheist, but he certainly wasn't religious.