question to him - we said, well suppose it were all true that after you pass away you show up at the pearly gates? what would you say to him? and russell didn't hesitate a minute - he said, i would say to him - you didn't give us enough evidence. and that i think is the right answer. if god does exist, which i think is very unlikely, then he is guilty of one thing - we have very inadequate evidence of his existence. now maybe he has some deep reason that he wants to test us and test our faith, but there is something else about this and that is that i am suspicious of believing in something which we desperately want to believe. and of course one reason that this is such an important issue is that we would all like to believe that their is a meaningful world beyond our own capacity to inject meaning in to it. we would like to believe that the people that we most love will continue to exist and it's very hard to be told that all of these wonderful people will cease to exist all together. furthermore another feature is we like there to be justice in the end. since it is obvious that there is no justi

if not them, then who will win heaven, holding tight to their pocketbooks at the pearly gates, just inase? ( cheers and applause )

. >> hoe was not just concerned with the pearlie gates and streets paved with milling and honey.erned with the streets of montgomery, alabama. >> reporter: social gospel? >> social gospel. talked about what people could do together, seemed like he was talking to me. john lewis, you too, can do shoofg i was deeply moved and inspired by this man. >> reporter: the son of sharecroppers, lewis attended segregated public schools in pike county, alabama. he did not understand why signs kept whites and coloreds separate. >> i would ask my mother, my father my brand parents my great-grandparents, why segregation, why racial discrimination. they would say that's the way it is. don't you get in the way, don't you get in trouble. >> reporter: really? therapy worried. >> yeah. they were very troubled about what could happen. but dr. king inspired me. >> reporter: lewis first met king when he was thinkgrate tro. >> i just wrote him and sid dr. king, i need your help. he wrote me back. sent me a round trip greyhound bus ticket and invited me to montgomery. that was the beginning of our relation