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I would not look to the NYT for my theological education. I doubt that anyone at the NYT knows anything about religion, much less Christianity. God's ways are not our ways, and God's thoughts are not our thoughts. When someone wonders why God does not do something or why He does something, what they are really saying is that if I were God, I would do a better job. God works in His own time and in his own way. That is what it means to live by faith. God hides himself in this world. Who is not to say that such things as HIV, H1N1, or WW2 are acts of God? It is sufficient simply to know that God is working in history whether you see Him or not.

I am always a bit perplexed by these athiests who seem to think that God should be held to the same standards as man — as if he were a democratically elected leader or something. If God decided that “genocide” was appropriate at some point in time, I trust that He was justified — the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. If men try to commit genocide, that is another matter altogether.