Judas Iscariot (Jay) Wyclif, son of the world-famous atheist activist Matthew Mark Wyclif, has been taking his father’s money under the pretense of funding an atheist organization chapter, but his organization is only involved in model railroading. When his father’s management consultant comes to check things out, Jay fears he will be arrested. Jay and the consultant need shelter from a sudden storm and take refuge in a church.

The Church of the Eternal Fig Leaf is currently being squatted by two conmen who aren’t having a lot of luck building a rich and generous congregation. Stumbling upon Jay, they fantasize: famous atheist converts to Fig Leaf resulting in lucrative publicity. The two disagree over how to approach Jay and will temporarily go their separate ways.

Sylvia stumbles into the Fig Leaf looking for an AA meeting which isn’t there, but she finds Jay and his model trains a good substitute. Her stepfather, Senator Blurt, is escorted to the oval office where he meets with the President, who plans to get evolution out of the public schools by making it a religion. Blurt is given a lot of money and assigned to do the legwork, meaning find some sort of church that can be bribed to pray to The Origin of Species. The quest leads Blurt to the Fig Leaf where he pays off a minister who is (as we know) a conman. The faux minister has no intention of meeting his end of the deal until he realizes that the Secret Service is guarding the church doors. He needs a congregation or he needs a way out. Eventually everybody ends up at the church but nobody’s praying.