"This happened because God was kicked out of schools/America"

[Rocknrule]

I've been hearing this over and over again over the past day - people again using a tragedy as an excuse to argue for state-sponsored religion. Listen, no one is preventing kids from praying by themselves in schools - as long as they don't force others to join them. If that's what you want, go to a private Christian school, that's what they are for! And you know what they say, as long as there are tests, there will ALWAYS be prayer in schools.
Second, the last thing our society needs is more religion. What has government-encouraged religion ever given us besides the Crusades, 9/11, Middle east theocracies that run on violence, everything associated with Bush, and Nazism?
However, if more people actually acted like peaceful role models such as Ghandi, Martin Luther King or Jesus (whether or not you believe in his divinity) then yes, these things would happen less often.