Atheism caused Arizona Shootings

Now that a few extra hours have past, the expected analysis of Jared Loughner and what he was and what he wanted to accomplish is shifting into high gear. Many on the left have brazenly accused the right of being the root cause of the attack. Some have pointed a finger at the Second Amendment, which is supported by no less than Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords herself. Others blame the general vitriol which all too often passes for political debate these days. Yet few point out that the shooter was an atheist and apparent communist.

The only reason why this isn't more widely debated in the media is that it goes against their stereotypes. Atheism, indeed a fully secular America, is what most of them want, and a break from religion is supposed to break us from such hostile acts as Loughner has allegedly committed. Religion is what inspires violence, in their worldview.

That's poppycock, of course. Without an eternal something, without at least something which asserts that certain behaviors are really right and others really wrong, not in the judgment of a secular (and therefore passing) society but in and of themselves, we should only expect more (and more violent) attacks. For if there's nothing to hold people in check with God in the equation, how can we keep a law abiding body politic when the only thing at stake is the transient opinion of the society itself?

Loughner was a product of secularism, not religion. But the left doesn't want to hear that. It upsets their more properly formed worldly conscience.