sense of humour or just cruel???

[wildwood]

An atheist was walking through the woods.

'What majestic trees!
'What powerful rivers!
'What beautiful animals!
He said to himself.

As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.

He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him.


He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder & saw that the bear was closing in on him.

He looked over his shoulder again, & the bear was even closer.

He tripped & fell on the ground.

He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw & raising his right paw to strike him.

At that instant the Atheist cried out, 'Oh my God!'

Time Stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.

As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky.

'You deny my existence for all these years, teach others I don't exist and even credit creation to cosmic accident.'

'Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament?

Am I to count you as a believer?

The atheist looked directly into the light, 'It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the BEAR a Christian'?

'Very Well,' said the voice.

The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head & spoke:

'Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen.'

[boxtops]

LOL, that's unexpected!

[craft1948]

Course he said grace..............it's a bear necessity.

[LazyGun]

Speaking as an atheist, its funny, with a nice twist to the tail :)

Is it not just a variant on the "no atheists in foxholes" argument though? An argument which is fallacious on several levels - there is plenty of testimony from atheists who, when faced with life threatening situations, have not called out to a deity. The people who make this claim are usually deists, who I think find it impossible to believe that someone would not call out to a god in those situations.
Secondly - Christian faith describe their god as a kind and loving god, concerned only for the well being of man - so what kind of god would it be that would welcome conversions through fear? Not the sort of God I would want anything to do with :)

[ummmm]

lol...

[Old_Geezer]

Have heard it before, and wonder if it ought to be in the Jokes section.

But yes, nice twist.

[rsvp]

like it.

[keyplus90]

I have heard and seen (on the websites) this before. And just half way down before you reach "Christian" bit, you can tell that this is a Christian, atheist story.

[tamborine]

well k+ muslims dont put their hands together as the left is considered dirty....mad or what ?

[mibn2cweus]

Watching to see which 'Christians' laugh at this joke and which ones find it cruel is a great test for distinguishing those who maintain the 'Christian values' they espouse from those who are just plain hypocrites.

[ummmm]

What? It would make a Christian a hypocrite if they laugh at this joke?

[Rapunzel61]

a 'true' Christian would forgive me for laughing.

[mibn2cweus]

//What? It would make a Christian a hypocrite if they laugh at this joke?//

Only if they're among those who claim their god is a kind, caring, compassionate and forgiving god.


Very funny Rapunzel.

[keyplus90]

Tamborine - My hands are always clean, even the left one so you are welcome to lick my fingures whenever you feel to do so.

[jomifl]

Keyplus.. would you, left hand that is?

[Elderman]

Yes,British are noted for dry humor, that is, when the speaker says something funny in a casual way and with a straight face. The British are fond also of the understatement. In this regard, the book Humour in Memoriam by George Mikes says: “Understatement is not simply a manner of making jokes; in England it is also a way of life.
Other people use understatement too—the English do not own the copyright. A cartoon in the New Yorker showed two men on the flying trapeze and one has just missed the other’s hand, ninety feet up in the air. The man who made the somewhat absentminded mistake said: ‘Ooop, sorry.’ Surely, an understatement and an American understatement at that. But in other countries understatement is casual, incidental; in England it flows from the national character; it is in the air. It is, more often than not, not even meant as a joke.”