I remember watching a TV evangelist and I said to my mother, that guy’s a crook. She said how could he talk about God and cheat these people. I said—He is a con-artist. He doesn’t believe in God. Well, then it made sense.
I don't know if you ever read anything by Lewis Grizzard,
but he said once that when he was a boy that his preacher
performed a funeral for a little boy's dog because the boy
asked him to and he knew how much the dog meant to him.
Lewis said that that became his litmus test for clergy. He
would look at them and ask himself if this person would
preach a funeral for a boys dog.