Thursday funny

[Maverick]

This is a funny only, no comment on any religion real or fictional. Any resmblance to a real person(s) is purely coincidental.  


A traveling evangelist always put on a grand finale at his revival meetings. When he was to preach at a church, he would secretly hire a small boy to sit in the ceiling rafters with a dove in a cage. Toward the end of his sermon, the preacher would shout for the Holy Spirit to come down, and the boy in the rafters would dutifully release the dove.

At one revival meeting, however, nothing happened when the preacher called for the Holy Spirit to descend. He again raised his arms and exclaimed, "Come down, Holy Spirit!"

Still no sign of the dove.

The preacher then heard the anxious voice of a small boy call down from the rafters, "Sir, a big black cat just ate the Holy Spirit. Shall I throw down the cat"?

[beet1e]

Old.

In the 1950s, my (methodist preacher) father told a slightly different version of the same joke, the difference being that the preacher was supposed to say "and the fire came down from heaven", whereupon the boy was supposed to light a piece of newspaper, and drop it down from the rafters. When no fire came down from above, the preacher looked up to the boy, who apologised by saying "I'm sorry sir, but the cat has pissed on the last match".