I feel awful for the dead Scouts and, of course, for their parents. How horrible.

But I can’t help but wonder…

If lightning were striking and killing, say, marchers in gay pride parades or hetero porn stars or abortion docs, Pat “Batshitcrazy” Robertson et al. would be running around insisting that this was God’s righteous judgment/death penalty.

But dead Scouts? What could God be telling us? Nothing, of course. When natural disasters, small or large scale, happen to people the American Taliban hates, it’s God sending a message. When natural disasters happen to people they like — to people everyone likes — it’s usually chalked up to “God moves in mysterious ways.”