“I believe God is a hands-off operator, Lloyd!”
Disagree. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a prime example of God being “hands on.” Countless years of bad harvests, for example, primarily due to bad weather. This is often blamed on collectivization of agriculture. But Russian was a sharecropper country before the Revolution. Collectivization merely replaced the nobleman with the state. God did the same thing to Israel when the P-whipped Ahab adopted Jezebel’s pagan faith. Three years of drought. An infant mortality rate 3 times higher than that of the US, despite widely available pre-natal care. It’s not like God sent the Angel of Death to the unemployment line after that whole Exodus business. The communists murdred millions of clergy and people of faith. God wasn’t about to take that lying down. God won’t take sanctioning homosexual “marriage” or other depravities lying down either. If you don’t believe me, take a visit to Staten Island or the Jersey shore.
“Russia”, not “Russian.” An edit function would be a nice touch.