At the Passover seder, one topic my relative get hung up on many years is "Why did God 'harden Pharaoh's heart'?" My take on this question is that regardless o

At the Passover seder, one topic my relative get hung up on many years is "Why did God 'harden Pharaoh's heart'?" My take on this question is that regardless of "why" this is an objective historical phenomenon—look at the USA today, clearly the hearts of Trump supporters (and the Resistance) have been hardened. Any account of God has to take the observed world as a datum, and the data say that before destruction, the leaders of a nation are stricken with hardness of heart. Similarly, God suffers monsoons to blow and so forth and so on. That's the data. Today we are again we see that God destroys Towers of Babel. So it goes.