Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Converting a Bear



Saturday evening at Rich’s house, a friend of Mr. Icon’s told a really funny (in my opinion, anyway) joke that I will share with my readers. Warning: it is slightly off-color and involves religion.

A rabbi, a priest, and a Pentecostal preacher were talking one day about how hard it was to make new converts, and they thought they should take up a real challenge and try to convert a grizzly bear. So they each went into the woods to find a grizzly bear and convert it, and then they met back up a week later to report their results.

The priest looked as healthy as ever. He said he had come upon the bear and started chanting the Divine Liturgy, and the bear seemed confused, so he sprinkled it with water and proclaimed that he was baptizing it in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The bear ran off into the woods, and the priest concluded that his conversion had been successful.

The Pentecostal preacher was pretty banged up, covered in bandages and with his arm in a cast. He said, “As you know, our baptism is full immersion, so I had to wrestle that bear down to the river and get him under the water! But I did it – a successful conversion!”

The rabbi was in a full-body cast and traction. From beneath the plaster covering his face, he mumbled, “Upon further reflection, perhaps I shouldn’t have started with circumcision.”

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