So many self-appointed Facebook philosophers posting so many updates calling for so many prayers. But... aren't people like you the source of the problem? Isn't 9-11, Charlie Hebdo, yesterday's attacks, etc., etc., the precise outcome to expect when people encourage worldwide prayer?

You know where murderous extremists come from? In the unconscious majesty of the forests of mainstream religion, it is the mightiest redwoods that grow into the deadliest terrorists.

And today, a cursory glance at your Facebook feed trumpets myriad posts and pictures from friends desperately making their appeal to empathy and moral superiority. Unwittingly or not, this fantastic stroke of irony disregards the greatest truth: every tragedy born of religious extremism that you respond to with calls to pray for the good guys, is because of you. These are deaths sown from the spiritually innocent, compost-enriched soil you maintain.