Everyone has their own way to cope with traumatic
events. If faith and religious belief , whether
Christian, Jewish, Islamic, or otherwise, is the best way,
the surest way, or the only way that some or even
many of us can cope with this immense tragedy and its
implications, I don't begrudge them that. I don't even
necessarily mind it when politicians do that in public ; they
are, after all, people too, and they need comfort and
solace like the rest of us.
But I am very
concerned about the implications of a "return to Godliness"
or a "national spiritual revival." And I am growing
very tired of opportunists using this time of weakness
and suffering to promote an agenda, particularly one
that bears no logical relevance to the tragic events
of last week.
If everything we are being
told about the people responsible for this horror is
true, a group of religious fanatics are the cause of
all this suffering in the first place. The world
desparately needs _fewer_ people seeking to bring divine
wrath down upon those he/she hates, not _more_ of them.