Me and the Hell I will most likely be going to

In Church, I get the worst ideas I've ever had about religion in my entire life. Last time I had this great idea for a story while the pastor was giving his sermon. In the story, this preacher gets up and decides to play a kind of ecuminical straight man. He begins to go through all the arguments that the modern world has against the existence of God, one after another, presentig them in all their sensibility and without mercy. It's a total rhetorical set up because you know that at any moment he's going to turn around and just say, "but when we consider..." at which point, he'll pull this excercise in atheism right out of the fire and turn it into a full scale revival.

Except, in the story, he doesn't pull it out of the fire. He seems perched at the volte, but instead, he pauses in deep consideration...longer...longer. I'm not quite sure how the story would end. Either he'd step down from the pulpit and just leave the congregation with their faith totally devastated without building it back up again, he himself having figured out that the logic of his own argument is simply just too insurmountible for him to offer its counter so that what is his sermon becomes instead an attack on faith itself.

Or, and I like this one too, before he mounts that counter argument, taking the congregation out of their faith-based nose dive into an upward soaring into renewed and invigorated faith, he simply has a heart attack and dies over the pulpit.

So, anyways, that was Easter...