Throughout the book, existentialism goes hand in hand with the loss of faith. Many soldiers not only lose hope and joy when they enter. These men are also at great risk of losing their faith. Because of the horror they see and the destruction and death they are forced to engage in, they question their faith in religion and good. “The feeling that bearing witness to something as unimaginably horrible as the Holocaust puts the very act of bearing witness under extreme pressure” (War). The horrors these men see can be so traumatic that they make them question everything: How could a loving God allow this to happen? The Chaplain is the best example of how this loss of faith is portrayed in the novel. The chaplain, a man of deep faith, is forced to question some of his beliefs. The suffering he sees around him seems senseless. “Doubts of this kind gnawed insatiably at the chaplain's gaunt and suffering body. Was there one true faith, or life after death?”(268) The character in Catch-22 who most illustrates the theme of existentialism is the cynical Yossarian. He constantly questions the meaning of everything he does. Even in an act one might see virtue in, Yossarian wonders, “I used to have a lot of fun saving people's lives Now I wonder what the hell the point is, since everyone has to die