Even people who don’t typically pray are praying in the wake of what has now officially become the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. That’s the right response to the senseless killing of 20 children and eight adults, but it’s time to take this issue of prayer a step further.
Rather than waiting until the aftermath of a Columbine, Virginia Tech or Newtown school shooting to pray, can we please put prayer back into schools on Monday morning? I know it's not as simple as that, but I ask you: If Columbine wasn’t enough, if Virginia Tech was not enough, can the Newtown school shooting finally be enough? If not, when is enough enough?
Yet with every school tragedy, there is always some outcry that removing God from the classroom' is to blame.
There's a cringe-worthy meme traveling across Instagram that features a letter exchange between a child and God:
Dear God: Why do you allow so much violence in our schools? Signed, a concerned student.
Dear Concerned Student: I'm not allowed in schools. God"
