>> ♪ jehovah... >> stahl: yolanda howard, age 14, had arrived by subway from the bronx before the mikesere even set up. >> yolanda howard: i was so happy, because i was the first person. ♪ ♪ >> stahl: and she brought along her friend, rhonda rodriguez, who started off a little shaky. >> ♪ ♪ >> stahl: were you nervous? >> rhonda rodriguez: i was really nervous. >> higginsen: hold up. move her to "this little light of mine." >> stahl: did you think you had gotten in? >> rodriguez: no. >> stahl: did they really, really have to be great in the audition? >> higginsen: absolutely not. they simply have to carry a tune. we don't expect them to be great; they're teenagers. >> stahl: of course, great is welcome, too. >> ♪ ♪

when are you going to believe your jehovah gyra?od says if you sow you will reap and there are harvest reports after harvest reports after harvest reports. debt cancellations, marriages being restored, mortgages being paid off, hallelujah. be bondages being broken. when you call, don't forget to name this $273 seed a break-through seed. tell the person on the other line the prayer partner on the other line tell them what you believe in god to do. they will be sent here. they will be brought on this prayer altar and they will be prayed over. here is anointing oil. they will be anointed. do not hesitate for one moment to respond why god is speaking to you. there is a grace, an anointing where god is moving. this $273 seed is a powerful seed. it is a powerful seed of obedience and i want you to understand that. it is a seed of obedience. god told me to tell you, it wasn't the size of the seed but it was your obedience to an instruction from a man of god and god told me to tell you, if you'll plant the seed, he's going to give you a mir

one of the reasons i wrote the book is because i like jehovah's witnesses and i like born again christians. i think that's part of the market place of ideas. i hate the atheist idea that says i don't mind people having their religion, but just keep it to themselves. if you believe that someone is going to miss everlasting life, pray for them, talk to them. that's the idea of the market place of ideas. we have really smart atheists like dawkins. and we have really strong historical personal atheists. but you don't have an atheist goof ball living a stupid life. and that's what the book is about. being an aethiest goof ball and living a stupid life and putting the ideas out there. a lot of people who don't want to talk about religion don't want somebody to give another point of view. >> i agree. i don't know what i am. i love looking at the back of your book. >> that's a career choice for you. >> exactly. believe me this is how far i have gotten, confused and stupid. on the back of the book you have -- you have some predictable great people on it like matt stone and trey parker who are aweso

. >> ♪ jehovah... >> stahl: yolanda howard, age 14, had arrived by subway from the bronx before the mikes howard: i was so happy, because i was the first person. ♪ ♪ >> stahl: and she brought along her friend, rhonda rodriguez, who started off a little shaky. >> ♪ ♪ >> stahl: were you nervous? >> rhonda rodriguez: i was really nervous. >> higginsen: hold up. move her to "this little light of mine." >> stahl: did you think you had gotten in? >> rodriguez: no. >> stahl: did they really, really have to be great in the audition? >> higginsen: absolutely not. they simply have to carry a tune. we don't expect them to be great; they're teenagers. >> stahl: of course, great is welcome, too. >> ♪ ♪ >> stahl: vy higginsen's goal... >> ♪ amazing grace.... >> stahl: ...is to bring gospel to kids more likely to have been raised on hip hop. >> ♪ ...the sound... >> higginsen: that's it? where's the rest of the song? that's why we have this school. >> stahl: so she and the teachers she calls "music masters," including her own daughter knoelle, want to accept as many kids as they can. but there were a few

i love jehovah's witnesses saying what they believe.believe in your god, tell people about it. pray for me. explain it to me. >> what if you were dying, hypothetically. >> i am dying. so are you. >> you put in this hypothetical about killing children. i could be horrendous to you. so you're dying. >> okay. >> you got a week to live. right. >> do you know this? >> no. >> it will change what i do today. i have other stuff to do. >> don't worry. i'm praying for you so it probably won't happen. >> are you pappy? sometime people like you, they pull a gun and shoot you in the face. you're dying, bang. i'm dead. >> i can reassure you, i'm not about to shoot you. >> you're not poked. >> no, i'm not. you have a week to live and you have two young children. >> yes, i do. >> you need to explain to them what is going to happen to daddy, what do you say? tough to comfort them in this terrible time. >> i don't think to comfort them i lie to them. and i don't think i have the immodesty to say that i know. i say that they'll miss me and i hope they rem

a jehovah. some people see a great deal of god in my body. they see christ in me.. >> he said, if you see me as your father, i'll be your father. if you see me as your brother, i'll be your brother. if you see me as your savior, i'll be your savior. he said i could go further than that. if you see me as your god, i'll be your god. you look at him, okay, okay, god. >> that's beautiful. >> i wanted to believe in something. i really wanted to believe in something. and if i found the second coming of jesus christ or god, you know, that was wonderful. it was wonderful. >> if he wants faith healing, you want mysticism, come on in. if you're an academic and you want education, you want to hear it logically, come on in. if you're a socialist, if you're a revolutionary, if you're just outside of what's considered in the middle, come on in, we can deal with that. everybody heard their message. >> jim jones was just 25 years old when he started peoples temple in indianapolis in 1956. as a lonely only child in a small indiana town, jimmy jones took comfort in religion and beca

mandatory voting will require more resources to enforce, to exempt people of jehovah's witnesses or people that to -- better too frail to vote. are you create an extensive barack receipt? >> on the latter point, we have had a lot of experiments out there. we have had at times italy. we have had libya. i have not seen any significant instance since where government selectively punished those from the other party any more than governments now administer parking regulations decide they will enforce parking ticket against those whose license plate tell them they live in a part of city they would not be voting for them. that is not likely to happen. as for the enforcement, it cost them money. it is a trivial sum in relationship to a 14 trillion dollar economy, but we also know that if you look at the system for enforcing parking tickets, this is not a difficult thing to do. you know who is on the voter registration rolls. you know who shows up. you know whether they sent in a letter or found some reason to have an excuse. if not, if you get a parking ticket and do not pay it, a month later you

mandatory voting will require more resources to enforce, and sent people like jehovah's witnesses, people who are too ill to vote. you creating an expensive bureaucracy, and is there a risk of unintended consequences is it risk of unintended consequences? >> we've had at times italy and bolivia, and i have not seen any specific instances where governments selectively punished those from the other party. any more than governments now which administer parking regulations decide they're going to enforce parking tickets against those whose license plates tell them live in a part of a city that wouldn't be voting for them. that's not likely to happen. as for the enforcement, it costs money. a trivial sum in relationship to a $14 trillion economy. but what we also know is it you look at the system for enforcing parking tickets, for example, this is not a difficult thing to do. you know who is on your voter registration roles. you know who shows up. you know whether they've sent in a letter or found some reason for an excuse. just now if you get a parking ticket and don't pay it, a month later y

mandatory voting will require more resources to enforce, and sent people like jehovah's witnesses, people who are too ill to vote. you creating an expensive bureaucracy, and is there a risk of unintended consequences is it risk of unintended consequences? >> we've had at times italy and bolivia, and i have not seen any specific instances where governments selectively punished those from the other party. any more than governments now which administer parking regulations decide they're going to enforce parking tickets against those whose license plates tell them live in a part of a city that wouldn't be voting for them. that's not likely to happen. as for the enforcement, it costs money. a trivial sum in relationship to a $14 trillion economy. but what we also know is it you look at the system for enforcing parking tickets, for example, this is not a difficult thing to do. you know who is on your voter registration roles. you know who shows up. you know whether they've sent in a letter or found some reason for an excuse. just now if you get a parking ticket and don't pay it, a month later y