.:Thursday, June 5, 2008:.
Shooting Yourself in the Foot
| 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.' ~There you go folks. If you are brave enough to have convictions, at least be brave enough to stand beside them rather than behind them! |
