American society has increasingly become a place where people believe in essentially blind forces creating our world. For example, we explain the birth of the universe by appealing to the Big Bang's Deus Ex Machina ("God from the machine"). We likewise describe the rise of life as a lucky game of dice, arising out of the primordial swamp by blind forces and pure chance. In other words, we are a people increasingly at a loss to give a rational explanation for historic events erupting in our midst, such as the recent re-election of a seemingly unelectable figure, Barack Obama. This confusion does not have to be our approach, given most Americans self-identify as Christians.
