God and cataclysms: Coronavirus seen returning nation to founding spirit

A cataclysmic event can be the most important ingredient for spiritual renewal, a columnist wrote. “Could a plague of biblical proportions be America’s best hope for religious revival? As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, there is reason to think so,” Robert Nicholson wrote for the Wall Street Journal. Three-quarters of a century “has dimmed the memory” of World War II “and its terrible consequences: tens of millions killed, great cities bombed to rubble, Europe and Asia stricken by hunger and poverty. Those who survived the war had to grapple with the kinds of profound questions that only arise in the aftermath of calamity, wrote…