Throughout the book, existentialism goes hand in hand with the loss of faith. Many soldiers not only lose hope and joy upon entering. 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 indulge in, they question their belief in religion and goodness. “The feeling that witnessing something as unimaginably horrific as the Holocaust puts the very act of witnessing under extreme pressure” (War). The horrors these men see can be so traumatic that they cause them to doubt everything: how can an all-loving God allow this to happen? The Chaplain is the best example of how this loss of faith is depicted in the novel. The chaplain, a man of deep faith, is forced to question some of his beliefs. The suffering he sees all around him seems insane. “Doubts of this kind insatiably gnawed at the thin and suffering figure of the chaplain. Was there one true faith, or one life after death? » (268) The character in Catch-22 who best exemplifies the theme of existentialism is the cynical Yossarian. He constantly questions the meaning of everything he does. Even though it is an act in which one could see virtue, Yossarian wonders: “Before, I loved saving lives. Now I wonder what's the point, since they all have to die