Faith

In a small Midwestern conservative town, a new bar/tavern started
building to open up its business.

The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from
opening with petitions and prayers.

Work progressed, however right up till the week before opening, when a
lightening strike hit the bar and it burned to the ground.

The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till
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, in its reply to the court, vehemently denied all
responsibility or any connection to the destruction of the building.

As the case made its way through court, the judge looked over the
paperwork at the hearing and commented, "I don't know how I'm going to
decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have here a
bar-owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church
congregation that doesn't".