. . . Many/most of these evangelical fundamentalists espouse a belief that "God is in control" of everything." But that creates a number of real problems of cognitive dissonance for them.
At the outset, there's the problem of events that occur in the world that they believe are clearly at odds with what their God would want. I mean, if God is in control of everything, then that means God is responsible for everything, good or bad. You can't really have it both ways -- I mean, God is either in control of, and hence responsible for, everything, or God is not. They ultimately get hung up on their own Calvinistic beliefs about predestination (i.e., the belief that since God is all-knowing, and thus knows the past as well as the future, God must therefore already know who will be "saved" and who will be consigned to the fiery pit of hell. 
The problem, though, is what does that do with their insistence that a person must "accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior." If it's all predetermined, what's the point of trying to convert anyone?
Virtually everything they try to do in terms of imposing their beliefs on others has to do with trying to resolve this fundamental cognitive dissonance, which is ultimately unresolvable. But that doesn't mean they won't keep trying to resolve it!
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