God! Not again! With an eye roll, I could not believe the irony and timing of Russian President Vladimir K. Putin’s letter to the Wall Street Journal.

It is well known that the Syrian government is a religious cabal masquerading as a parliamentary system. Its opposition? Faithful rebels espousing ritualistic pogroms. All this Syrian butchery unanimously desiring God’s side for governance. A baleful collusion between church/mosque/temple and state is the resultant causality for this cataclysm. The entire world is a funeral pyre as a result.

Putin’s article correctly identifies Syria’s problems with an inculcation to reject military venturism into a “multi-religious country.” However, he blunders on to an overly portentous inducement of the pope?!?

By the end, he belies his own production of God, concluding, “We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.” This facile riposte comes from a Russian leader enshrouded in the black veiled dirges of atrocity and barbarism of Russian orthodoxy.

As with all “true believers”, there is this perilous belief that “God” takes their side through prayers and celestial invigilation. I cite the decisively Christian Nazis who wore belt buckles declaring “Gott Mit Uns” (God with us)!

Usually, concepts contradicting rationality and nature itself are diagnosable or outgrown in adolescence. Yet, the Syrians and the American and Russian presidents are somehow engaged in the brinkmanship of religions. It is time for “God’s” thrusting extirpation to privacy and abandonment to savages of its own device.

G. ZACHARY HOAGLAND

Easton