A priest, a minister, and a rabbi get hammered at a bar and decide to see which of them is the best at his job. So they each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it. Later they get together to brag about their success.
The priest begins: “When I found a brown bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his First Communion and he’s expressed an interest to become a priest among the other bears.”
“I found a black bear by the stream,” says the minister, “and preached God’s holy word. He was so mesmerized that he let me baptize him and is now preaching God’s word to the other bears.”
They both wait for the Rabbi to comment. Finally he speaks up through the mouth hole in the bandages he’s wrapped in from head to toe: “Looking back,” he says, “maybe I shouldn’t have started with a circumcision on the grizzly bear.”