Some prominent leftist cable news hosts have made their thoughts on religion staggeringly clear in the wake of the mass shooting earlier this week at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California.

A lone gunman identified as Ian David Long, an ex-Marine, entered the country music venue on Wednesday night, tossed in a smoke bomb, and began shooting.

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He killed 12 people before he was shot and killed by police.

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While discussing the tragedy, both CNN’s Chris Cuomo (shown above left) and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (above right) went after Americans, mainly Christians, who offer their thoughts and prayers following such tragedies.

“First, I would like to offer my thoughts and prayers because that’s what you do when you offer thoughts and prayers,” Cuomo said on “Cuomo Prime Time” Thursday night.

“You mock those who lost loved ones because if you gave it any thought at all, you would never walk away from any of these without figuring out a better way to deal with them.”

“And prayer?” he added. “You think leaving it to God is the answer? We pray for strength, we pray for wisdom, for resolve, but we clearly don’t want to act on any of those here. So what are you praying for?”

But that’s not all.

On “Hardball” on Thursday night, host Chris Matthews also mocked prayer while speaking with Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who herself was shot five times back in 1978 during a congressional trip to investigate Jonestown, the commune built by cult leader Jim Jones. Her boss at the time, Rep. Leo Ryan, died in the shooting.

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Speier said to Matthews, “The moments of silence are about all Congress has the guts to do — it’s not good enough.”

Matthews responded sarcastically, “You mean thoughts and prayers?”

Then he said in a more serious tone, “I’m sorry, I mean, that should be outlawed.”

Matthews concluded by further saying of thoughts and prayers, “Usually, it’s a throwaway line by a staffer who knocks off some script, some product, some wordage for somebody political to make it sound like they give a damn.”

Igor Volsky, executive director of Guns Down, a pro-gun control organization, went even further; on Friday, he tweeted, “Screw #ThoughtsAndPrayers.”

Volsky tried to explain why his side was not happy with thoughts and prayers while speaking with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday night, who was subbing in for host Laura Ingraham.

“Look, I pray,” said Volsky. “I know a lot of people who pray. My point is you’ve got to pair the prayer with action. The action I want to see is moving toward the future with fewer guns. It’s making guns harder to get. It’s about living in safer communities. I don’t care if people pray. I just think that they should pair it with actually doing something to solve our problem.”

Volsky also said he did not think enough gun control measures had been enacted in the past 20-30 years, adding, “So pair the prayer with action, and Governor, I’m a happy camper.”

As a devout Christian and supporter of the Second Amendment, Huckabee also gave his perspective — and he was not happy with the what the left-wing cable news hosts said.

“Why would you mock the idea that people are trying to show their sympathy?” he asked. “Their compassion? No one knows exactly what to do. They would love to get rid of people who have mental health issues, and get them where they can get the help they need. There are a lot of things people would love to do but if they don’t feel the power to do it, do you think it’s powerless to pray?”

“When I hear Chris Cuomo giving me a theology lecture, when I hear Chris Matthews trying to tell me these are meaningless words, I have a visceral reaction to that,” he added.

Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, a Christian conservative nonprofit organization, also appeared on the program and agreed with Huckabee’s sentiment.

“I’m with you, Governor. First off, let me say, that we’re praying for those families, those victims of this senseless violence,” he said.

“When we remove God from the public and public square and we remove virtue, violence and vice rush in and I’m tired of being lectured by liberals about their liberal gun grab,” said Perkins.

“In fact, one of our team members lives in that community and their church had one of the prayer events. Let’s be honest. This is an attack, same attack that Barack Obama started with his mocking of people who cling to their religion and their guns. This is more of the effort to try to quarantine religious expression within the four walls of our churches, in our synagogues.”

“Here’s a news flash: We’ll get more of this,” Perkins added. “When we remove God from the public and public square and we remove virtue, violence and vice rush in and I’m tired of being lectured by liberals about their liberal gun grab.”

Perkins also noted that when there was a shooter at the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C., office back in 2012, people in the building prayed — and ultimately, no one was killed by the domestic terrorist.

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Tom Joyce is a freelance writer from the South Shore of Massachusetts. He covers sports, pop culture, and politics and has contributed to The Federalist, Newsday and other outlets.