Local Bar Sues Local Church

[Parsons]

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, 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.
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."