INTERVIEWER: Just the Bible?
EVANGELICAL: Yes! The Bible! The sacred word of God. That alone should be taught in every school in this country! And the Ten Commandments should be on the walls of every public building!
INTERVIEWER: In other words, you want taxpayers to subsidize your attempts to convert everyone in this country to Christianity.
EVANGELICAL: This is a Christian country!
INTERVIEWER: If so, I'm puzzled. Aren't the Christians going to church? Don't they learn about the Ten Commandments in church? Don't they already read the Bible?
INTERVIEWER: The people who aren't Christian need to learn about the Ten Commandments. The non-Christians and the secularists need to read the Bible! The Bible should be taught in every public school! Everyone in this country should be judged by the word of God as set down in the Bible!
INTERVIEWER: So you want want America to be a theocracy, instead of a democracy?
EVANGELICAL: No, of course not! That's not it at all! (Deep breath.) Look, we just want balance. If you're going to teach evolution, you should also teach intelligent design, okay? If you teach one theory, you should teach the other! That's only fair!
INTERVIEWER: So balance is the goal? Fairness is the goal?
EVANGELICAL: Yes.
INTERVIEWER: So you'd have no problem also teaching Darwinian evolution in Sunday school?
EVANGELICAL: (shrieking) Burn in hell, you --!
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)