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I don't think Ethan Edwards from The Searchers fits this trope, especially not given the example cited. To give context, Ethan has just shot out the eyes of a dead Comanche warrior. Clayton (both a militia captain and a preacher, not a priest) asks him what good that did.
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I don\'t think Ethan Edwards from The Searchers fits this trope, especially not given the example cited. To give context, Ethan has just shot out the eyes of a dead Comanche warrior. Clayton (both a militia captain and a preacher, not a priest) asks him what good that did. \"None by what you preach,\" Ethan replies, \"but by what that Comanche believes, without eyes he can\'t enter the spirit land.\" This suggests a disturbing form of pantheism, perhaps, but not Hollywood Atheism. Ethan tells Clayton to \"put an Amen to it\" more than once during funerals, but to me this indicates an impatience to get back on the hunt for the killers as opposed to a rejection of religion. I\'m just not seeing anything explicit pointing to atheism in the character, and I\'d like to remove the reference.
