religious joke

[Guest guest]

from

Saving a Bear

A priest, a Pentecostal preacher and a rabbi all served as chaplains to

the students of Northern Michigan University

in Marquette.

They would get

together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop.

One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn't really

that hard. A real challenge would be to preach to a bear. One thing led

to another, and they decided to do a seven-day experiment. They would all

go out into the woods, find a bear and preach to it.

Seven days later, they're all together to discuss the experience. Father

O'Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on crutches, and has various

bandages, goes first.

" Wellll, " he says, in a fine Irish brouge, " Ey wint oot into th'

wooods

to fynd me a bearr. Oond when Ey fund him Ey began to rread to him from

the Baltimorre Catechism. Welll, thet bearr wanted naught to do wi' me

und begun to slap me aboot. So I quick grrabbed me holy water and, THE

SAINTS BE PRAISED, he became as gentle as a lamb. The bishop is cooming

oot next wik to give him fierst communion und confierrmation. "

Reverend Bob spoke next. He was in a wheelchair, with an arm and

both legs in casts, and an IV drip. In his best fire and brimstone

oratory he proclaimed, " WELL, brothers, you KNOW that we don't

sprinkle...WE DUNK! I went out and I FOUND me a bear. And then I began to

read to him from God's HOOOOLY WORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do

with me. I SAY NO! He wanted NOTHING to do with me. So I took HOOOLD of

him and we began to rassle. We rassled down one hill, UP another and DOWN

another until we come to a crick. So I quick DUNK him and BAPTIZE his

hairy soul. An' jus like you sez, he wuz gentle as a lamb. We spent the

rest of the week in fellowship, feasting on God's HOOOOLY word. "

They both look down at the rabbi, who was lying in a hospital bed. He was

in a body cast and traction with IV's and monitors running in and out of

him.

The rabbi looks up and says, " Oy! You don't know what tough is until you

try to circumcise one of those creatures. "

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