Have you noticed a couple of interesting things? I will leave it up to you to decide if they might be the work of God.
Quebec was a French colony that was originally founded for religious missionary purposes. Many of the most religious people in France went to Quebec. But just before the French Revolution of 1789, Quebec came under British control.
Seriously, is this a coincidence? The French Revolution was extremely hostile to the church. Coming under British control, which I know is still a sensitive subject, cut Quebec off from contact with France and it's revolution.
But could it be that God so valued the religious devotion of Quebec that he shielded it from the hostile revolution in France?
As for Britain, the Theory of Evolution which came in the Nineteenth Century was based primarily on the 1859 publication of "On The Origin Of Species" by Charles Darwin. The theory actually never states that there is no God, or that life arose out of inanimate matter, only that new and improved species develop over time by natural selection.
But atheists, and those who do not want a god to answer to, co-opted the theory and made it into intellectual basis for explaining how life came to be without God.
What about the Carrington Event, the massive solar storm of 1859 that I refer to in the posting on this blog, "The End Of The World As We Know It", as possibly a factor in the fulfillment of the biblical apocalypse, if anything like it should be repeated, in our world of utter dependence on sensitive electronic technology?
The Carrington Event was accompanied by an incredible display of aurora as had never been recorded before, all across the world except the tropics. Night turned into day. People could read by the light in the middle of the night. No one had ever seen anything like it before. Some people saw it as a sign from God.
As it turned out, this fantastic worldwide display came just before the publication of "On The Origin Of Species", which quickly sold out and became the intellectual foundation of atheism, even though that is far stretching what it actually states.
Also of note is that the visions of Mary at Lourdes, which are highly-regarded by many Catholics, also occurred not long before the publication of "On The Origin Of Species", and the 1917 visions of Mary at Fatima occurred just before the coming of power in Russia of the Communists, who had the goal of ending religious belief.
Unlike Catholics, Protestants usually do not go around expecting to see visions of Mary, so God gave them the Carrington Event as something that they could relate to.
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