I got round to watching a BBC 3 film, "Creationist Road Trip! in which a party of UK adherents were ferried around the west of the States, mostly to meet scientists. It was a pretty useless exercise (as we could have predicted), but among the contacts were a group of American Christians, who, as well as toting a poster proclaiming that the USA is a republic not a democracy, explained something of their beliefs about voting.

Because atheists and Darwinists have no moral beliefs, those voting for one would have to answer to God in the Judgement for their abandonment of their own Biblically based morals.

This is of a piece with the belief expressed by one of the group that evolutionists really know that they are wrong, but want to set up a belief that allows them to ignore the certainty of Judgement and live by their own, depraved, lights.

Why are they so afraid? And why do they want to spread this fear? And why is their faith so fragile?

It was that message that made the "vote for Obama and go to hell" idea explicable to me. They live in this horrible, hopeless bubble, open and obedient to anyone who presses the Judgement button.

Two of the people concerned in the programme had had life changing religious experiences. Strange that God did not draw their attention to the teachings Arkie has posted and let them fall into the clutches of the scare-merchants.

Penny