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 ?!
Cathryn Sykes is an essayist and freelance writer who lives near Springtown, Texas.
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 ?!
Cathryn Sykes is an essayist and freelance writer who lives near Springtown, Texas.
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