China was “smited by god” for daring to be socialist.

You are spot-on here, this is exactly, unironically believe and hope happens again to socialist nations. During the Cold War, there were many religious people in the West who unironically believed that the Warsaw Pact was the Antichrist. And let’s not forget Adrian Zenz literally believing that he was “sent by God to punish Beijing”.

If any god believes that people should suffer for turning towards socialism, or for any reason whatsoever, they must be opposed.