Religion and ... Cows!

A riff on an old joke …

** Religion and Cows! **

Hindu: you worship your cow.

Jewish: you worship the one, true invisible cow.

Muslim: Same as above, but Mohammad is the last person to milk the cow. You are not allowed to have pictures of this event, or to drink fermented milk.

Catholic: The one true cow had a calf. Every sunday, you eat the calf and drink its blood.

Protestant: The one true cow had a calf. If you believe this, you will go to heaven; if not, you will go to hell.

Buddhism: the cow is just an illusion which will cause you pain. The way to salvation is to stop wanting a cow.

Taoism: you, the cow, and the grass it eats are all part of the same thing. If you eat the cow, you eat a part of yourself.

New Age: you own an extremely odd-looking cow, which has been created by sewing together cast-off parts of other people’s cows.

Disclaimer – I have attempted to insult everyone equally. If through inadvertance some have not been sufficiently insulted, I will try to rectify this error. :smiley:

Dianic Wicca: the femaleness of the cow has been subjugated by the oppressive patriarchy. Only by worshiping the cow without men can womyn regain their power.

Jehovah’s Witnesses: you are just sitting down to dinner, when the doorbell rings … and outside is a cow.

Hari Krishna: cows hanging around airports handing out flowers and literature and wearing funky saffron robes.

Atheist: You don’t think the cow exists.

Agnostic: You’re not sure whether or not the cow exists, but you’re willing to eat beef.

Zen: What is the sound of one cow grazing?

Anglicanism: The Cow is an Englishman.

Scientologist-you pay the cow a bunch of money to clean the manure off of you.

Sceptic: Cows do not exist, milk can be disproven with the simple application of logic.

Mormonism: The only true cow.

Baseball:

Corbomite, I think you should add that worshipping the Holy Cow of baseball will get you to Paradise by the Dashboard Lights if you get lucky.

Did somebody say cows?!

Poor Eve, still waiting for those Masai cows…
Damn US Government.

Unitarian-Universalism: It is the responsibility of each UUer to decide for themselves which cow to have, or to not have, or to try to obtain or to avoid. And there might not be any cow anyway. But if there is, it is ok to worship it, or milk it, or eat it. Unless it isn’t ok to do that. But we’re all in this together.

Diabolist: We worship the Anti-Cow

Simpsonian Scepticism: You don’t have a Cow, man!

Hippie: We’ve all got to love one an’ udder

Atheist: You’re not sure if a cow exists, because nobody who is sure a cow exists has been able to make a halfway-decent case for it yet. You accept evidence as it comes in, but give no leeway to bullshit.

Agnostic: You believe we’ll never know if a cow exists or not.

Satanism: The cow everyone else worships is a blind idiot-cow, as the real cow would never dirty its hooves with the physical realm. The blind idiot-cow has been telling stories about the real cow.

Televangelist: If you send $100 to the address shown, you will ensure that I can keep buying time to tell people about our Cow.

Discordian: You try to make the cow laugh so hard milk comes out her nose. Fnord.

Church of the Subgenius: Cow is Bob, and it likes grass. Norms get the manure. And aliens, don’t forget the aliens. And Yetis, yeah, those are important too, man. And, um, slack. What was I talking about?

Diabolist Orthodox: There is no cow level. No really, we mean it. Really!

Diabolist Reformed: Ok, fine, there is a cow level, but we’re going to make you work for it.

And Corbomite, did you do that whole quote just for the “holy cow” payoff? If so, Cow bless you :slight_smile:

No, no, no.

Atheist: There is no cow.
Agnostic: We can know nothing of cows.
Skeptic: Prove there’s a cow.

And how about –

Mormon: The cow was once a man, and I will be a cow.

Rastafarian– Hey, mon! Don’t let the Cow eat the Grass!:cool: