Religious Studies Humor

The capacity for laughter, joy, and mirth is one of the greatest gifts that the Creator has given us. Indeed, it is a refection of God's own nature.
To celebrate this gift from God, we offer a few humorous thoughts.

Quaker Humor
  • A devout Quaker lived in the country all alone. One night, a burglar broke into his house. Hearing a noise, the Quaker woke up, grabbed a shotgun, went down the stairs, pointed the gun at the robber and said: "Friend, I mean thee no harm, but thou art standing where I am about to shoot."



Childish Wit

  • A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, looking at the old pages as he turned them. Then something fell out of the Bible and he picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that has been pressed in between the pages. "Momma, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked. With astonishment in the young boy's voice he answered, "It's Adam's suit!"

  • A little child in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed the offering plates. When they neared the pew where he sat, the youngster piped up so that everyone could hear him say, "Don't pay for me Daddy, I'm under five."

Bit's and Pieces

  • It seems a man in Topeka, Kansas, decided to write a book about churches around the country. He started by flying to San Francisco and started working east from there. He went to a very large church and began taking photographs, etc. At one, he spotted a golden telephone on a wall and was intrigued with a sign which read "$10,000 a minute." Seeking out the pastor he asked about the phone and the sign. The pastor answered that this golden phone is, in fact, a direct line to heaven and if he pays the price he can talk directly to God.

    He thanked the pastor and continued on his way. As he continued to visit churches in Seattle, Boise, Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York, Atlanta, and on around the United States, he found more phones, with the same sign, and the same answer from each pastor. Finally, he arrived in Oregon. Upon entering a church in Newberg, lo and behold, he sees the usual golden telephone. But THIS time, the sign reads "Calls: 25 cents." Fascinated, he requests to talk to the pastor. "Reverend, I have been in cities all across the country and in each church I found this golden telephone, and have been told it is a direct line to heaven and that I could talk to God, but, in the other churches the cost was $10,000 a minute. Your sign reads 25 cents a call. Why?" The pastor, smiling benignly, replied, "Oh, my son, that's very easy to explain. You see, you're now in Newberg and, of course, it's a local call from here."