Thank you so very much, dear brother in Christ, for your two essay-posts with all of those fascinating and informative insights! I only have two observations:
First, the malpractice insurance for ob/gyns in the U.S. is mind boggling evidently because many parents in these days of abortion on demand seem to expect a perfect baby. If the U.S. survives the economic tsunami then I would expect genetic engineering to advance exponentially because of this. And a nation of manufactured people as envisioned in Gattica would be much easier to manipulate.
But I do not think that will be our fate: Maranatha, Jesus!!!
Second and most importantly, God never leaves us or forsakes us.
The U.S.S.R. and China both tried to "kill" God as communism requires. Buildings may be destroyed, religious leaders killed, captured or marginalized. But only God can kill a soul.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. - Matt 10:28
In those very nations despite all the persecution people remembered and talked among themselves forming house "churches" or two or more people. The communists could not stop that.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. - Matt 18:20
And today there is a spiritual awakening in those very countries which sought to "kill" God.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? - I John 5:4-5
That is why I said disorganized Christians are the most difficult to harm - e.g. the house churches, the non-Denominationals and the Baptists. God's Name is I AM.