The fallen world is a dangerous place.
“Any “interactive” God who sat back and (for example) allowed 50 million people to die in WWII, when all He had to do was knock off Hitler in WWI, is no God to me.”
Huh? You just conceded that God gave us free will, but then you want Him to step in and act like a babysitter when we exercise that free will in bad ways?
You can’t have it both ways. Either we get free will, along with the consequences, or it is just an illusion of free will.
re: “The only way I can believe in God, is one who created the universe, gave us free will and then bailed out. Any “interactive” God who sat back and (for example) allowed 50 million people to die in WWII, when all He had to do was knock off Hitler in WWI, is no God to me.”
So, if I understand you correctly, if God interacts with His creation, then you don’t want Him to allow for free will - because, if He does interact with creation, and He allows for free will, then He’s responsible for all the evil we do because He doesn’t stop it?
You're assuming He "sat back" and did nothing, even though the scripture teaches that every catastrophe, every war, every death (for he ordains even the very second when it should happen) and, indeed, every good thing we receive too, comes from His power and will. Even the unleashed devil is only unleashed because God allowed it, and planned to use it to fulfill His own purposes. If God did not want to demolish us with so many dead, it would not have happened. We should take our calamities then as judgment and warning for even worse things, unless we repent.