There are atheists in fox holes. http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/
And why do we have bronze and iron age clerics wandering around when we could use more evidence based mental health practitioners for a modern age? God couldn’t deal with chariots of iron, how can he cope with tanks?
The kid pope isn’t Jesus, the young Hasidim isn’t Moses, so the child mullah probably isn’t Mohamed.