Most Americans don't attribute tragedy to god.
Atheists conveniently forget that God's opposition, Satan, creates suffering by tempting people into sin. The consequences of sin take us away from God because we tend to blame God. So when someone asks a Christian about God creating, or allowing, suffering the Christians shake their head and laugh.
I believe that suffering is created by our EMS to make us ask why and lead us back to Tao. It is pretty much the same concept of suffering but nobody is responsible for it and the situation does not really exist.
Just another reason religion is so ridiculous!!