Amen to that. I'm not particularly religious myself but religion was a major part of my growing up and vital to the moral beliefs I hold today.
I said to my own kids that they can decide as adults how they wish to observe their religion but when they were growing up, we ensured they were at church each week and participated fully in the church activities.
They never gave us any major problems growing up certainly would never have participated in that disgusting scene that played out on that bus. I can guarantee that none of those kids that participated in that cruelty had adequate moral teachings at home and in the church.
Religion played a major part in this nation's founding and we move away from our Judeo-Christian values at our own peril.
Social darwinism in action. Those idiot kids saw a woman who was weak and they preyed on her in the way they could. If she had been walking down the street alone these same kids would have assaulted her because they have no core belief or respect for anything or anyone. If that had been a 35 year old 6’6” wrestler they would never have said or done what they did. They are essentially cowards. They will grow up to be adult predators unless someone, a large man, hopefully a father, grabs them by the nap of the neck and get their attention the only way they will understand. They will understand force. They are not compelled by any sense of respect for the elderly. They are not compelled by a right upbringing. They will understand force. Unless they do they will become wards of the state in some penal institution or killed by one of their victims.