Why does Dick Cheney hate God?

As widely reported today, the Bush-Cheney campaign's talent for boomerang spin went to a new level at Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, when Cheney claimed never to have met Edwards before, an intended slight on Edwards' Senate attendance record. The trouble is, Cheney had met him before, in the Senate and at a prayer breakfast. Amongst the excuses trotted out today, to the LA Times:

Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt described the prayer breakfast photo as evidence of an 'inconsequential meeting.'

So now even prayer is getting the Dr Evil treatment ("the details of my life are inconsequential...."). Don't Christian conservatives need to know about this?