My Dad was a huge fan of westerns--books, movies and television shows. So when I think of clerics, I always start with Clint Eastwood's
Preacher. Of questionable origins, alignment, and religion, Preacher is the prototypical cleric for me. No weird Gygaxian mix of alignment, militant religious orders, schoolboy Greek mythology, or cosmology...just a holy symbol filled with lead and a glare that will stop undead in their tracks.
