I hate to break it to you, but believing in God isn't going to stop school shootings.

Before anyone jumps down my throat, know that I am proud to be spiritual. I am proud to be Catholic and to share the things I learned in church with those I meet through my actions and my outlook on life.

That does not mean that my belief and my trust in God has anything to do with school shootings.

I have seen an influx of people trying to rationalize this shooting like we always seem to after a tragedy. I've seen all of the familiar arguments:

"Guns don't kill people! People kill people."

"This wouldn't have happened if the teachers had been armed."

"Liberals want to take away all our guns!"

First of all, no. That's not the point we need to be making right now. But in reality, these arguments are troubling, but not as much of the issue I'm trying to talk about.

I witnessed some people that I know on Facebook sharing a video of a screaming kid (or lots of screaming kids, if I am being honest) throwing a particularly nasty tantrum. The caption read "This is what happens when you make it illegal to spank your children."

The comment that made me shiver was this: "Next school shooter!"

I stopped and looked at it a while, not sure if I should comment or not because I was so horrified that someone would say that (and someone I KNOW). Eventually, I let it go because I didn't want a fight with someone I had to probably see again a lot.

Even more so, I'm baffled by the ideas that every other post on my timeline from those people page was about how God and Jesus need to be allowed in schools again, how this shooting wouldn't have happened if God was worshipped in school.

Basically, it boiled down to this- morality.

And you can have a moral compass, make good decisions, and be a rational, competent person without making God the reason for it. I know plenty of people who are Muslim, Jewish, and, heck, atheists, who are great people. God is not a common factor between all of these groups. Or, if you want to get technical, the SAME God is not the common denominator. Jesus is not worshipped by all of these groups. We do not all have to worship in the same way.

There are young people who have respect for their elders, who open doors not just for the woman standing behind them, but everyone (because that is a distinction, according to many people I know). They donate to charity without having to put money in the collection plate at a church. Religion is not a thought in their life, but being a good person is.

The condemnation of the current secular school system seems to come mostly from the older generations, and that makes me confused, too: are all of these shooters young people? Are they all ungrateful millennials? NO! Of course not!

So why are we being told that God should be put back in schools to save our children and make them good people? The two topics aren't related!

I grew up Catholic, but we didn't go to church every week. We attended religious education I pretty much forgot about every single year up until 8th grade, then made Confirmation late because it wasn't the type of thing that crossed my mind until I was a junior in high school.

Yes, I attend youth group at church now and I'm a bigger part than I used to be.

But don't you dare say that anyone who isn't doing that is a bad person, and most definitely do not say that people like them are the reason for shootings.