The Bar vs. The Baptists

The Bar vs. The Baptists

In a small midwestern conservative town, a business owner
began to construct a building for a new bar. The local
Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from
opening with petitions and prayers.

Work progressed, however, right up until 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.

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

As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over
the paperwork at the hearing and commented, "I don't know
how I'm going to decide this, but as it appears from the
paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of
prayer, and an entire church congregation that doesn't!"

I thought this was entertaining=] Hope you think the same thing!