Anti-theism and Chaucerian Frauds

I've been debating with myself on the potential merits of a book that would serve as a kind of anti-theist manifesto for a new generation. The book I'm envisioning would be Chris Hitchen's god is not Great combined with elements of Dennett and Dawkins, but refracted through a fictional prism that places the arguments into the context of a dialog between a young man and a fading old televangelist.

The televangelist reflects on his life and his manipulation of his flocks while leading the youth in an intellectual journey through his most cherished beliefs, ultimately arriving at a conclusion of unbelief, and how he is now a scholar of scientific and rational ideas. As the ideas unfold, the young man challenges many of the elder's presumptions based on his own belief, but his skepticism begins to grow as the discussion grows.

I was particularly struck by Hitchens describing Jerry Falwell as a "Chaucerian fraud" during an interview shortly after Falwell's death, and that there is a poverty of fiction that presents fairly basic ideas about skepticism and faith for consumption by young people. Yet there is no shortage of religious tracts that present ideas of faith in simple, easily consumed tidbits, including the infamous Jack Chick tracts.

Many questions remain, though, including whether cartoons and/or verse are the best approaches, much less whether I have the chops to make it happen.

I always read this sort of thing with a smile that even in the 14th century wits were far quicker than it often seems today:

For smalle tithes, and small offering,
He made the people piteously to sing;
For ere the bishop caught them with his crook,
They weren in the archedeacon's book;
Then had he, through his jurisdiction,
Power to do on them correction.