If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

In this sardonic line, Sunday—an evangelist famous for blunt, crowd-rousing rhetoric—turns a doctrinal dispute into a moral and financial accusation. If hell does not exist, then preachers who solicit donations by warning of damnation are, in effect, selling protection from an imaginary threat. The remark critiques religious fundraising that relies on fear and highlights the ethical stakes of preaching: doctrines are not merely abstract beliefs but claims that can be used to influence behavior and extract money. It also functions as a backhanded argument for hell’s reality, implying that widespread clerical appeals to it would otherwise amount to systematic deception.