Assassination is God's work?

My wife and I are from the Deep South. Last night, we went out to a local bar and grill for a bite and a beer after a long hard week. We had the pleasure of sitting at the bar next to two members of the local brain trust. These guys were discussing the recent election and the resulting upcoming apocalypse. It was very enlightening. I didn't know that the election was pre-ordained 2000 years ago, and that the world-wide jihad is at hand. I didn't know that our support of Israel is our only chance for eternal salvation, and that Obama threatens that. These guys were talking about the bible and stockpiling weapons. What are the odds these two toothless morons have ever even read the bible, rather than simply listening to their preacher's instructions for "proper" living?

Aside: **Don't become angry toward the true believers. Instead pity them their lot in life. Imagine living in a world where every minute of your life, whether waking or asleep, is observed and judged by an insecure, narcissistic, egomaniacal, control freak who doesn't care about your deeds so much as about your adoration for him. Imagine being unable to escape this constant scrutiny even in death, and the punishment for disobedience is eternal pain and suffering with no chance for reprieve, but he loves you. The amount of cognitive dissonance involved in that level of doublethink creates internal discord on the order of total insanity.
When your parents finally told you there is no Santa Claus did you feel a sense of betrayal? Was your trust in your parents shaken at all? Imagine finding out that only your decisions control the direction of your life, and that your decisions have been based on fairy tales. I think on an unconscious level they already know. People will go to amazing and dangerous lengths to protect their denial.**

I have heard whisperings -- someone knows someone who knows someone who said... -- of the certainty that President Obama will not survive his first term in office. I have mixed feelings about statements like that. On the one hand, I think that if some redneck thinks he can take a shot at the President of the United States with a deer rifle, then he deserves to live out his life in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Security is nothing as lax as it was during JFK's time (not that it was a cake-walk then), and I hope they make an example out of one of them and end that kind of talk. On the other hand, if the Secret Service has an off day and Bubba does get his lucky shot, my wife and I can't see any reason to hope this country will ever evolve to a rational, free-thinking society. At that point we'd have to consider other options of places to live in the world.