I’ll share a joke I heard recently on a Boag World podcast. Especially appropriate given your recent Christian post/discussion…

A priest was sitting on a fairly empty tube one late evening, when on got a rather dishevelled chap – who’s hair was ruffled, coat on crooked, tie askew, lipstick marks on his collar and a half empty bottle of gin poking out of his coat pocket – staggered on, sat near him and started looking through an abandoned newspaper. The priest wondered whether he should say anything, but refrained.

After a few minutes the dishevelled man looked up and said, “excuse me father, do you know what causes arthritis?”.

The priest quickly responded, “too much alcohol, having too many lustful thoughts, living a loose and lascivious lifestyle, not respecting God or fellow mankind.”

“Gosh! Really!” exclaimed the man and went back to the paper, shaking his head sadly.

After a few moments the priest started to feel guilty for being so uncompassionate. He leaned across, pulled the newspaper aside and gently said “I’m sorry, son. That wasn’t polite of me. How long have you been suffering?”

“Oh, I’m fine” responded the man, “I was just reading it’s been announced that the Pope has arthritis”