Religion Jokes

Humor strengthens the immune system, enabling the body to fight sickness and disease. Drawing from two lifetimes of joyful ministry, Charles and Frances Hunter have compiled some fabulous jokes, anecdotes, musings and mind twisters to make your heart merry and speed healing to your body and soul. Get ready to laugh!

Laughter: a double edged sword. Positive humor engenders euphoria; negative, can humiliate. Triggered by the COVID quarantine, Therapist and Author Annette Poizner revisited the sitcoms of her youth – the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. Looking through the lens of the ancient Kabbalah, Poizner then performed an inquiry into laughter, examining the mystical infrastructure of this every day phenomenon and getting insight into the how, why and what of funny. Can we find the root of all humor in the 'Knock, Knock' jokes of yesteryear? Or even further back, with the 'Peekabo' we play when ...

Professor Jim Davies's fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling. Drawing on work from philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, economics, computer science, and biology, Davies offers a comprehensive explanation to show that in spite of the differences between the many things that we find compelling, they have similar effects on our minds and brains.

Jews have a centuries-old tradition of telling jokes, from the ghettos of Europe to Hollywood and the Catskills. Jewish jokes are entertainment, the oral history of a culture, insightful social criticism, and survival tactic rolled into one. In 2008, Hollywood director and producer Sam Hoffman launched a website called Old Jews Telling Jokes. It’s just what it says: Jewish men and women over 60 sharing their favorite stories, tales, riddles, and punchlines.

SAINT PAUL'S JOKE is a joke played upon those who believe, as Martin Luther asserted, that they will achieve salvation through faith and can willfully ignore biblically mandated deeds. Prior to its publication, the Vatican studied the text, with the result that Pope Benedict resigned, and the current Pope Francis -- the 112th and final Pope in St Malachy's Prophecy of the Popes -- emerged to bring the Church slowly back to its roots. This book begins by recounting the history of the period in terms of the people involved -- from the actual date and stated events of the birth of Jesus, to ...

You should listen to this audiobook if you like traditional Jewish gags and funny stories about worried mothers, hen-pecked husbands, argumentative rabbis, yentas, and Jewish Princesses!

This book is packed with Jewish one-liners, jokes and funny stories featuring all the usual characters: hen-pecked husbands, overbearing mothers, struggling businessmen, Volvo drivers, self-righteous rabbis and of course, the hapless goyim who have to cope with them. The book will make a great gift and will provide inspiration for anyone making a speech at a wedding, barmitzvah, etc.

The problem of identity is universal. It is the foundation of every human crisis. Some people have found it easy to resolve, while others are unable to figure it out. Many define who they are by what they do. Equating what you do to be the same as who you are makes you a human doing and not a human being. If what you do is who you are, you are forced to see yourself as a failure anytime you fail at what you do.