{"id":776,"date":"2012-06-06T23:43:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/06\/texas-beer-joint-sues-local-church-over-lightning-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T23:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T23:43:01","slug":"texas-beer-joint-sues-local-church-over-lightning-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/06\/texas-beer-joint-sues-local-church-over-lightning-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS BEER JOINT SUES LOCAL CHURCH OVER LIGHTNING STRIKE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nThis may have been posted before, but it is still funny.<\/p>\n<p>\tA bar called Drummond&#8217;s (in Mt Vernon, Texas) began construction on an expansion of their building, hoping to &quot;grow&quot; their business.<\/p>\n<p>\tIn response, the local Southern Baptist Church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding &#8211; petitions, prayers, etc.<br \/>\n\tAbout a week before the bar&#8217;s grand re-opening, a bolt of lightning struck the bar and burned it to the ground!<\/p>\n<p>\tAfterward, the church folks were rather smug &#8211; bragging about &quot;the power of prayer&quot;.<br \/>\n\tThe angry bar owner eventually sued the church on grounds that the church&#8230; &quot;Was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, through direct actions or indirect means.&quot;<br \/>\n\tOf course, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe judge read carefully through the plaintiff&#8217;s complaint and the defendant&#8217;s reply. He then opened the hearing by saying:<br \/>\n\t&quot;I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that what we have here is a bar owner who now believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tTrue story!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may have been posted before, but it is still funny. A bar called Drummond&#8217;s (in Mt Vernon, Texas) began construction on an expansion of their building, hoping to &quot;grow&quot; their business. In response, the local Southern Baptist Church started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crapsclub.goldentouchserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}