When he answered it, the salesman said,
"Hello, my management team would like to discuss a proposal with you."
After taking a seat in his office, the salesman said,
"I am with Kentucky Fried Chicken.
We would like to offer you a contract to the church
if you can change the Lord's blessing
from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to
'Give us this day our daily chicken'."
The Pope said, "I'm sorry we just cannot do that."
The salesman went back to his office where he discussed the outcome of the
meeting.
He returned to the Pope's office a week later with the same proposal,
only he had upped the bid to 4 million.
The Pope gently declined, again.
The next week he came again and offered the Pope an offering of 10 million.
The Pope said, "Let me think it over."
The Pope then called a meeting with the elders of the church and said,
"Well gentlemen, I have good news and bad news.
Kentucky Fried Chicken has generously offered us 10 million dollars to
change the Lord's Prayer from 'daily bread' to 'daily chicken.
The bad news is that we will lose the Wonder Bread contract."
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