Short Story: "The Skull"

I thought that this short story was very interesting and had a surprise element to it. The main guy, Conger, is a hunter. He is promised that he will get out of jail if he goes back in time to kill a man who was called the Founder, and gave a famous speech that had impacted the world in a way that they did not like by creating a religion. Conger has one thing to help him identify the right man, his skull. I find that this is very interesting and also kind of creepy. Conger goes back in time to find the day that the Founder had made his speech, so he can stop him. The Founder made the speech in a small town so everybody had known everybody. This is why people would stare at Conger when he walked by and they thought that he was kind of strange. The guy had told Conger that the Founder was new to the town and no one, had known him. Conger then goes to the place that was where the Founder was supposed to make his big speech. When he goes to look at the skull in his hands, he finds the skull is actually his own. This was the surprising part that I had no idea was coming. Conger seems to be comforted by the fact that he will be born later on in time, which is his original birth. He sees the cops coming towards him, and makes a small speech, saying "I have an odd paradox for you. Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!" This created the religion. What happened was, Conger was born, then goes back in time and dies in the past, while creating an event that had already happened in the normal timeline. In his (Conger's) timeline, that was the ending event. So this story kind of has two timelines that it is focusing on. I was confused about this at first but it really is not as complicated as you may think. The story left me wondering if Conger being born in his timeline really was him coming back to life. "The Skull" also made me realize that speeches can impact the entire world whether they are just a couple words long or a couple pages.