In a small midwestern conservative town, there wasn't a place to get a drink for miles around, so a local entrepreneur saw an opportunity: He started to build a tavern.
local church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and
prayers. The businessman was polite when congregants came to protest, but work
continued on the tavern.
But the night before the grand opening, a lightning strike hit the bar and it burned to the ground.
bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately
responsible for the destruction of his building, either through direct or
indirect actions or means
At the first hearing,
the judge held up the paperwork and took in the lawyers and both sides of the lawsuit.
but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner that believes in the
power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that doesn't."
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