Not for his speaking, but the late Rev. Billy Graham. His newspaper column "My Answer" still runs successfully in print.

The questions that he'd allegedly receive were sometimes so out there that I'm fairly certain he just made some of them up as an excuse to write about a certain topic. Whenever he'd get a question about atheism, or allegedly from an atheist, it was almost always ridiculous and therefore, funny.

I don't read it daily unless the headline catches my eye, but a great source of humor for me.

My brother used to say, when asked what church he attended, "Bedside Baptist". He was way more into radio evangelism than I ever was.

You have to give credit where it's due, though, many of these people are skilled orators, and can hold your interest for lengthy periods of time if you think they have important things to say in the first place.

And I'm talking about the ones that don't use overt theatrics, like the Pentecostal types with their bizarre verbal tics. I had no contact with Pentecostalism back in the early 70's when I was living in Grand Rapids, MI (itself a hotbed of fundamentalist ministries) and tuned in the radio one morning to hear this preacher who would spit out a "HEH!" at the end of every sentence and many phrases, as in, "I once was a terrible sinner HEH! But Jee-sahs set me free HEH!" and so forth. I asked around about their phenomenon and was told, oh, they talk like that when they claim the holy ghost has come upon them; it's a signifier that they are speaking for god."

Well, whatever ...