The religious right has an agenda. Every time we suffer a tragedy, we see it dusted off and rolled out, often by way of Fox News. It is a morally corrupt line of reasoning that appeals to the self-self-righious. This time the message was simple; by excluding God from our public schools we invited violence and death. I read this as, "Those kids deserved it."
Rob Boston of American United posted Strange Gods: The religious Right's Offensive Response to the Tragedy in Connecticut. His article captures some of my angst.
As soon as I heard about Friday’s horrific school shootings in Newtown, Conn., I knew it would only be a matter of time before some Religious Right extremist blamed it on the lack of mandatory prayer in public schools.
It didn’t take long. First out of the crazy box was former Arkansas governor and erstwhile presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
Are we so simple as to believe that God allowed this murderous rampage to happen as payback for ensuring that our children can learn without being indoctrinated into a state sponsored religion? What kind of God is that?
