Another tragic school shooting, another attack on Christians, another heartbreak for America and for scores of American families.

And another spasm of progressive rage-addicts accusing Christians and other believers of cruelty for offering our prayers to those who are suffering.

“Don’t say this is about ‘thoughts and prayers’ right now — these kids were literally praying,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey spat out Wednesday, while the nation reeled from a crazed gunman’s attack on Catholic schoolchildren at Mass.

“It was the first week of school — they were in a church.”

He wasn’t the only one to do so, as he and other leftists instantly sought to make political hay of unimaginable pain.

It happens every time tragedy hits, be it natural or man-made.

We send up our fervent prayers and heartfelt consideration; they call us monsters for not simultaneously demanding the eradication of our fundamental rights — in this case, the rights delineated in our Second Amendment.

Frankly, I’m as sick of offering my prayers and positive thoughts as they are of hearing about them.

Not because they are so useless, but because they are so necessary.

The progressive left has set about dismantling the bedrock of functioning society, and the rest of us are forced to live with the shattered pieces.

They sell lies to our children about their bodies.

They scream for the “reinvention” of the nuclear family.

They degrade and insult any expression of masculine strength and fortitude as “toxic,” unless it is coming from a woman pretending to be a man.

They remove critical thinking and academic instruction from school curriculum and replace it with destructive obsessions like “social learning” and sexual identity.

They demand we medicate our boys for the crime of being boys, and medicate our girls so they don’t have to cope with their emotions or circumstances.

They mutilate our children in the name of “kindness” and then release those emotionally abandoned souls into the population to work out their distress on the rest of us.

They unleash evil and then scoff when we engage with our God, the only force proven to defeat the evil they’ve loosed.

Our thoughts and prayers form our first line of defense against such wickedness, not the last gasp of our hope.

When we offer them, we are acknowledging that our humanity has no power against grief or the evil that causes it.

We are calling on the most powerful Entity in the universe to help and console our fellow citizens.

Progressives are so committed to their ideology of disarmament and their worship of victimhood that they make no room for logic.

Perhaps that’s why they react so violently against our “thoughts” — thinking is the last thing they want us to do.

Ironically, they are the ones suggesting we have no command of logic when we are praying.

Yet we are the realists.

We know objects are not wicked, but the human heart can be.

We know it is dangerous to hook developing children on powerful anti-psychotic drugs that come with well-known, well-advertised side effects of depression, suicidal thoughts and violent impulses.

We know you cannot remove the foundations of a healthy society — nuclear family, fathers and faith — without completely crushing the healthy development of its children.

We know there are consequences for that, and we know that what we saw in Minnesota this week is one of the very heaviest prices we’ve had to pay for these grievous errors.

We are not dumb enough to want to eliminate human rights in the name of “safety,” or heartless enough to invoke politics in the seconds following a horrific event.

But we know better than to come empty-handed to a crisis.

So we come with the most powerful weapon we have — prayer.

And that is what the illiberal left has a problem with: They want us, in all ways, defenseless.

If progressives don’t want to hear about our thoughts and our prayers, they need to stop sending evil to come for our children.

Kira Davis is an independent opinion journalist and podcaster living in Southern California.