How much suffering, death, and loss must happen before Christians are willing to admit that, when it comes to the machinations of men, God is nowhere to be found. The only gods at work in the affairs of men are those who are very much earthly. If God is indeed on their side, then Christians have no response when secularists say that their God is a violent, bloodthirsty megalomaniac.
Gerencser knows what he is talking about. I have said exactly that bit about a bloodthirsty megalomaniac, and a dozen more variations of it — e.g., Why on earth do you want to spend eternity with a sociopath who would drown all of humanity? — and am invariably met with a blank stare or, in the rare case, indignation. Seriously: Evangelicals don’t have thoughts; they have rules they follow, clichés they repeat — and that’s it.