Pushing the Religious Propoganda?

We interviewed several High School students in December of 2009 about their views on the afterlife. One of them subsequently wrote an article for her High School newspaper about the encounter entitled, "Pushing the religious propaganda". We thought that we would provide the audio and let you decide on the accuracy of her depiction of the encounter. (Click on the image of the article above to read it) There is at least one thing she wrote that we must challenge. She said is that the Million Dollar bills we gave them "looked like Monopoly money". I have not played Monopoly for quite a while but I don't remember the money looking as good as this. :o)

Here is the text of the message on the bill in its entirety.

"The million-dollar question: Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God's name in vain? Jesus said, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on Judgment Day? If you have done those things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Bible warns that if you are guilty you will end up in Hell. God, who the Bible says is "rich in mercy," sent His Son to suffer and die on the cross for guilty sinners. We broke God's Law, but Jesus paid our fine. That means He can legally dismiss our case. He can commute our death sentence: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Then He rose from the dead and defeated death. Please, repent (turn from sin) today and God will grant everlasting life to all who trust in Jesus. Then read your Bible daily and obey it.

Towards the end of the conversation one of the participants asked whether the recording of it would be used for promotional/for profit purposes. Tracy replied that it was just for training purposes. And though consent is not required to make public conversations available online, clarification probably should have been provided that we also record conversations for our own protection and to possibly post them online so that others can benefit from them as well. Therefore at the request of two of the students who were a relatively minor part of the conversation and not involved in writing the article about it, we have removed their portion of the dialog from the recording that we are making available below. We do think that it is fair to offer Taylor's portion of the audio as a response both to the factual inaccuracies and to the tone of her article.

Here is the link to the edited audio file:

http://www.archive.org/details/PushingTheReligiousPropaganda_edit