:) +

-- 
Honda Civic '00 EK3 1.5 Vtec-E
 
"Toxis@ze_yvil_place" <tox@work.ble> wrote in message news:h3i0j0$r1i$1@trimpas.omnitel.net...
> 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.
> 
> Liking a "dry" town, the 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.
> 
> The church folks were rather smug in their piousness after that -- until the 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.
> 
> The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise in its reply to the court.
> 
> At the first hearing, the judge held up the paperwork and took in the lawyers and both sides of the lawsuit.
> 
> "I don't know how I'm going to decide this," the judge said, "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."
> 
> 
> -- 
> ___________
> ©Toxis