Dinesh D’Souza inserts himself into the VTech tragedy here:

To no one’s surprise, Dawkins has not been invited to speak to the grieving Virginia Tech community. What this tells me is that if it’s difficult to know where God is when bad things happen, it is even more difficult for atheism to deal with the problem of evil. The reason is that in a purely materialist universe, immaterial things like good and evil and souls simply do not exist. For scientific atheists like Dawkins, Cho’s shooting of all those people can be understood in this way–molecules acting upon molecules. If this is the best that modern science has to offer us, I think we need something more than modern science.

Nor am I surprised that Professor Dawkins (of whom I’m not a fan) hasn’t been invited. Why would he be? If this is the best that those arguing for religion (and I know that it’s not) have to offer us, then the obvious riposte to Mr. D’Souza’s staggeringly feeble argument is that “we need something more than religion.”

There is a perfectly respectable intellectual case that can be made against atheism, and there are many good times to make it. This is not that case and this was not the time.

Commenter number nine puts it rather well, I think, when he says this:

If anyone seeks comfort in religion in terrible times, I genuinely wish them well. It’s not my choice, but I don’t presume to know what’s better for anyone else. Just myself. People practicing religion does not offend me. But opportunistic zealots who take a national tragedy and use it to promote their own religious agenda do.