The first and greatest is the belief of Christmas among the soldiers of the three countries. We can see that some of them are saddened by the reality that they will not spend Christmas with their loved ones. From this, we can conclude that they all share the same relative religion and how they may not be any different from each other than they had previously thought or learned. In the name of the Christmas spirit they were able to put aside their differences and celebrate together without any evil intentions that we see in war. They also all share a mass led by the Scottish deacon who was on the battlefield and everyone seemed to follow along. I think that night the soldiers realized or realized that instead of seeing their worst enemy in front of them they saw another fellow soldier who was doing the exact same thing as them, which was surviving to the best of their ability. They learned that they were in the same hell hole and had compassion towards each other. That's why later in the film everyone was reluctant to kill another soldier, they had seen him and befriended him and when you become friends with someone it's harder to pull the trigger and kill them. Another religious aspect was when everyone once again agreed to cease fire to collect and bury their fallen brothers. While digging graves and rummaging through the belongings of a dead soldier we saw that some had a belt with a religious saying. Then I can remember a soldier putting an object in the mouth of a dead person. This can possibly show that it could be some sort of tradition and could be followed by a religious aspect. Towards the end of the film, when the superiors find out about the agreement between the soldiers and the bishop also finds out and comes to scold the deacon, I think it was very hypocritical. Here is a man of faith, who should be preaching about preserving human lives, preaching about killing those who are evil
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