Local Bar Sues Local Church

In a small Texas town, a new bar/tavern started a building to house
their business. 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 burned it 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.

When the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the
paperwork. At the hearing he 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 who doesn't.'