Nice Paradox : January 27, 2010, 04:42:09 PM From January 27, 2010, 04:42:09 PM From A



Nice Paradox



In a small town in America, a person decided to open up his bar

business, which was right opposite to a church. The church & its

congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening with

petitions and prayed daily against his business.



Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to

open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the bar and it was

burnt to the ground. The church folk were rather smug in their outlook

after that, till The bar owner sued the church authorities for

$2million on the grounds that the church through its congregation &

prayers was ultimately responsible For the demise of his bar shop,

either through direct or indirect actions or means.



In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all

responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to

the bar shop's demise. In support of their claim they referred to the

Benson study at Harvard that inter-cessionary prayer had no impact !



As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the

paperwork and at the hearing and commented:



'I don't know how I am going to decide this case, but it appears from

the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer

and we have an entire church and its devotees that doesn't.'

