Trying to make sense of tragedy the wrong way.

Whenever something horrific happens, people naturally try to make sense of it in all sorts of strange ways. And so is it this time again after the recent series of school shootings across America (Pennsylvania, Colorado and Wisconsin).

This one though, which was broadcast on national television (CBS) beats them all (via Think Progress):

This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.

We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.

Suicide has become an acceptable action and has further emboldened these criminals. And we are seeing an epidemic increase in murder-suicide attacks on our children.

Sadly, our schools are not safe. In fact, we now witness that within our schools. Our children have become a target of terrorists from within the United States.

The man who said those words lost his son in the Columbine shooting. However sad that is, it is even sadder he should have such a twisted perspective. The worst part is that I have heard the same thing from many Conservative Christians before - people I personally know and I think it represents the view of a significant (but still minority) portion of the American Christians.

This is really nothing new though – remember when Rev. Jerry Falwell and Rev. Pat Robertson blamed pagans, abortionists, feminists & gays and lesbians for bringing on the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As Judd remarks on ThinkProgress it is pretty bad that CBS should broadcast such extreme views to millions of people without context or debate.