Dinesh D'Souza Exploits Virginia Tech

Not since Tom Delay, blamed the Columbine murders on birth control and the teaching of evolution, has a conservative sunk this low. Dinesh D'Souza uses to Virginia Tech tragedy to to pen his straw man argument against Atheistism.

The atheist writer Richard Dawkins has observed that according to the findings of modern science, the universe has all the properties of a system that is utterly devoid of meaning. The main characteristic of the universe is pitiless indifference. Dawkins further argues that we human beings are simply agglomerations of molecules, assembled into functional units over millennia of natural selection, and as for the soul--well, that's an illusion!

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.

One does not have to believe in a Christian God to understand a savagely hateful crime took place. None of those people needed to die and we may never be able to make sense of it. All we can do is honor the memories and be vigilent in stoopping people like Cho Seung-hui from killing. Religiously dividing people during a tragedy smacks of political grandstanding.

D'Souza also wrote the book "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11". He isn't aiming for fairness or historical accuracy.