Dan FletcherThe Daily Northwestern

The door-to-door evangelizing by some campus groups is annoying enough. But when they incorporate the Virginia Tech shootings into their sales pitch, it becomes downright tasteless.Two students from Cru. went door to door last week in Shepard Residential College, asking students to take a survey. An innocuous enough request, but like most Cru. surveys it quickly turned into an interrogation about faith. The coup de grace? The pair wondered whether students thought that the Virginia Tech shootings would have happened had Seung-Hui Cho been a Christian.God help us. This “survey” happened the week of the shooting. It’s still too early now to speculate what exactly set Cho off, much less what could have prevented it. But in this void of information, these Cru. members draw a dangerous inference that Christianity could have saved Cho and the 32 students he killed.Christians are no less predisposed to acts of violence than anyone else if the abortion clinic bombings of the mid-’90s are any indication. Even Cru.’s parent organization, Campus Crusade for Christ, alludes, perhaps unintentionally, to Christian violence in the name of God.Each group, religious or not, has its killers and fanatics. Cru.’s holier-than-thou attitude does little to address the problem. Many evangelists make it their life’s work to bring people into Christianity. They just need to be a little more tactful in the face of tragedies like Virginia Tech.- Dan FletcherAdministration beat reporter