EppsNet: Notes from the Golden Orange » Dinesh DiSouza http://eppsnet.com Online journal based in Orange County, CA. Hilarious anecdotes tempered by the icy chill of certain death. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:44:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Responses to Tragedy http://eppsnet.com/2007/05/responses-to-tragedy http://eppsnet.com/2007/05/responses-to-tragedy#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 19:56:45 +0000 PE http://eppsnet.com/2007/05/responses-to-tragedy Dinesh DiSouza, a noted conservative pundit, was moved in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings to say this:

Only the language of religion seems appropriate to the magnitude of tragedy. Only God seems to have the power to heal hearts in such circumstances. . . . Atheism seems to have nothing to say to people when there is serious bereavement or tragedy.

That’s not true. For example, one famous atheist response to tragedy is this: So it goes.

DiSouza also forgot to add that if you leave out platitudes, pleasant myths and happily-ever-after fairy tales, religion has nothing to say to people either . . .

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