Acts of God part 2: when God roared

The God of Biblical epics now behaves in a more civilised manner,surely? 

There is a massive disconnect in much of the Church today in the West. It is between the God of the Bible and the God of history. Many Christians find it difficult to relate to the God who destroyed the world through a Flood, parted the Red Sea, caused the sun to stop in its tracks and slaughtered so many people through plagues, earthquakes and fire. And dare we mention the apocalyptic destruction waiting for us in the Book of Revelation, or do we take comfort in the cosy refuge of symbolic interpretations? Surely this is the God of Biblical epics, of grim-faced Charlton Heston, of fictional excesses brought to us through the silver screen? Surely this God has grown up now and behaves in a more civilised manner, like a good Englishman that He surely is at heart?