Bruce - People think that "God would involve Him/Her/Itself in human affairs" because they have the peculiar idea that God is separate from human affairs in the first place...therefore must step in when things get too far out of whack.

That is a misperception, in my opinion. God is not separate from anything. A consciousness which imagines itself to be alone sees itself as separate...therefore imagines God to be separate also, existing at some unimaginable distance. Also a misperception.

It's like one cell in the jellyfish thinking that the rest of the jellyfish is on the other side of the Universe somewhere... :-) Meanwhile the whole jellyfish carries on just fine, regardless of what that one little cell thinks.