In a small conservative town, a bar/tavern owner started to build a
new bar to open up for business. A local church started a campaign to
block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers.
Work progressed, however, right up till the week before opening, when
a lightning strike hit the bar and it burned to the ground.
The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until
the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was
ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through
direct or indirect actions or means.
The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to
the building's demise in its reply to the court.
As the case made it's way through the legal system, the judge looked
over the paperwork at the hearing and observed, "I don't know how I'm
going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a
bar owner that believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church
congregation that doesn't!"
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