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Old 04-05-2011, 05:54 PM  
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TEXAS BEER JOINT SUES CHURCH over LIGHTNING STRIKE ! ONLY IN TEXAS ...

Texas Beer Joint Sues Church In Mt. Vernon, Texas, Drummond's Bar began construction on expansion of their building to increase their business.

In response, the local Baptist Church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground!

After the bar burning to the ground by a lightning strike, the church folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about ??? The power of prayer???, 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."

In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise.

The judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and the defendant's reply, and at the opening hearing he commented???



"I don't know how I'm going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."
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Old 04-05-2011, 08:10 PM  
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Old 04-06-2011, 01:23 PM  
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"I don't know how I'm going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."
That's a great line.
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Old 04-06-2011, 03:07 PM  
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"we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."


That reminds me of Mormons. Situational ethics if I've ever heard them.

No polygamy in US states? goodbye polygamy

Civil Rights you say? welcome brother black folks

I'm still waiting for someone to pin Mountain Meadows on Mitt.
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Old 04-14-2011, 12:22 PM  
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The law suit if frivolous, we need things in place to punish people who congest the courts with junk like this.
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WHAT DOES PRAYER DO TO YOUR BRAIN

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