[BITList] from a Texas bar

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                         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 mean".


                         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."


                         True Story.





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