( CNN ) -- For all of the rhetoric about Christianity being under attack in this country , oftentimes it feels no one does a better job of hurting Christianity than the people who call themselves Christians . Especially after a national tragedy . For example , after the September 11 terror attacks , Jerry Falwell blamed the ACLU , as well as feminists , gays and lesbians , for lifting God 's veil of protection . After Hurricane Katrina , Pastor John Hagee said he believed God caused the largest natural disaster in U.S. history to stop a gay pride parade in New Orleans . Bodies were still being recovered from the 2010 earthquake in Haiti when Pat Robertson said the country was struck because it made a `` pact to the devil . '' And just this weekend , as the nation is trying to heal from the theater shootings in Aurora , Colorado , Jerry Newcombe , a spokesman for the evangelical group Truth in Action , took time out of his day to inform mourners that some of their loved ones were going to hell . His comments were made after U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert , a Texas Republican , said he believed the shootings happened because Christianity is under attack . He then wondered why `` you know , with all those people in the theater , was there nobody that was carrying ? That could have stopped this guy more quickly ? '' Carrying a gun , of course . That 's right -- a congressman who sits on the House Judiciary Committee is talking about a shootout in a dark room filled with tear gas and panicked , innocent people . And we ask ourselves why Congress is so dysfunctional . This past winter , Sen . Rick Santorum , a devout Roman Catholic who made his faith central to his presidential bid , blamed higher education for the declining number of young people who identify as Christians . This might have struck young people looking at Santorum 's three degrees as ... curious . Dare I say , hypocritical ? Hysterical ? Dumb ? As in ignoring that Haiti sits on two seismic fault lines , but choosing to go with the pact-with-the-devil-to-explain-the-earthquake kind of dumb . Of course , people of various faiths , agnostics and atheists make questionable statements all the time . The difference is this mantra of an `` attack on religious freedom '' is most often repeated by politicians and religious leaders of the Christian faith , usually when a political discussion about marriage or women 's reproductive health is taking place . I 'm fine with that . But I have a problem when a disaster claims innocent victims or causes a great deal of pain and loss , and instead of showing compassion , these so-called leaders of faith say the gays did it . Or the liberals . Or that gem Falwell served up -- the ACLU . That kind of rhetoric not only violates Christ 's greatest commandment -- to love -- but is completely illogical . As a Christian , I understand the importance of faith . But Jesus did not say you have to be illogical or inhumane to be a person of faith . Newcombe and others like him would remember that , I doubt he would have chosen the day after the Aurora shooting to tell mourners their loved ones are burning in hell . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of LZ Granderson .
LZ Granderson : People who call themselves Christians can question the faith the most . LZ : Falwell blamed homosexuality for 9/11 ; a friend said gay parade caused Hurricane Katrina . Now , evangelical said some who died in theater shooting were sent to hell , LZ writes . Q : This kind of rhetoric questions God 's commitment to love and simple logic .