They found numerous Bibles at the crash site

The wire story has it all:

MEXICO: 65 KILLED AS BUS PLUNGES 300 FEET At least 65 people died and 2 were injured when a tourist bus plunged more than 300 feet into a ravine between Mexico City and the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz. The state prosecutor, Emeterio López Márquez, said the crash had been caused by excessive speed and the weight of the bus, whose capacity was 44 passengers. Authorities said they believed many passengers had been traveling to religious ceremonies for the Easter holidays; they found numerous Bibles at the crash site. ANTONIO BETANCOURT (NYT)

Later, more detailed stories just confirm it: 65 people, most with Bibles, died horrifically on their way home from Easter services.

I suppose they all went to heaven - though of course not the three badly injured children who survived the crash.

But - do you suppose they were praying as they went over the cliff?

Just the other day my father told me of a man he'd seen on television praising God for not killing him in the recent tornados. It's a point of view he doesn't get - nor do I. I suppose it's partly a "blame the victim" thing: I prayed and lived, so I'm worthy; they died, so they aren't... But Ambrose Bierce defined that kind of prayer neatly more than a century ago: asking that the laws of the universe be abrogated for a single petitioner self-avowedly unworthy. Does God really pick and choose among the prayerful - you three live, you sixty don't?

I can still remember the rage I felt when a guy on a bus I was riding on said something to a co-religionist of his (believe me, I've heard way more than I want about these guys, their personal lives, and above all their rather intolerant and inflexible religious lives). This was the day after that massive earthquake in Iran, and what he said was, "I wonder how many of them were brought to the Lord Jesus Christ while they were dying?"

Gack.

To me, this is the worst thing about religion - worse than the way it, in its more fundamentalist and inflexible forms, teaches its adherents to accept unquestioningly anything they're taught by their religious leaders and to reject anything that hints at contradiction, often with violence; worse even than the way it splits the world up into 'us' and 'them', and teaches 'us' that 'they' aren't - not just not 'us' but not quite human: religion teaches its adherents that life on Earth is less important than what happens after death. Many even believe that life on Earth is completely unimportant.

Life on Earth is what we know we have. What we should do is make that life the best we can for each other. Feed the hungry. Heal the sick (not just give them a clean place to die). Teach the ignorant. House the homeless.

Pray for them once you've done that. And then - only then - pray for yourself.