Local Bar Sues Local Church:

Local Bar Sues Local Church:

In a small Texas town, a new bar/tavern started a building to open up
their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign of
petitions and prayers to block the bar from opening. 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, till 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 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
that doesn't.'

And the insurance company called it an Act of God.