[Vision2020] A priest, a rabbi and a Pentecostal Preacher . . . (humor)

[Thomas Hansen]

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

Well, one thing led to another and before it was over they 
decided to do a seven day experiment. They would all go out into 
the woods, find a bear and preach to it......................

It's now seven days later and 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 brogue, "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 Chatecism. 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 gintle as a lamb. The bishop is cooming
oot next wik to give him fierst communion und confierrmation."

Reverend Billy Bob speaks next. He's in a wheel chair, with an 
arm and both legs in casts and an I.V. drip.

In his best fire and brimstone oratory he proclaims, "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 untill we come to
a crick. So'se 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's laying in a hospital bed. 
He's 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 hairy creatures."