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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Prosecution Calls God To The Stand


A Nebraska judge has ruled that God cannot be sued for damages caused by pesky, albeit destructive, Acts of God, primarily because you can't serve Him with a subpoena.

From today's Omaha World-Herald:

Judge Marlon Polk threw out Nebraska Sen. Ernie Chambers' lawsuit against the Almighty, saying there was no evidence that the defendant had been served. What's more, Polk found "there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant."

Chambers had sued God in September 2007, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent God from committing acts of violence such as earthquakes and tornadoes.

Although the case may seem superfluous and even scandalous to others, Chambers has said his point is to focus on the question of whether certain lawsuits should be prohibited.

"Nobody should stand at the courthouse door to predetermine who has access to the courts," he said. "My point is that anyone can sue anyone else, even God."

Chambers, an avowed atheist, said he decided to make that point after at least two attempts in the Nebraska Legislature to limit "frivolous lawsuits."


I always wanted to play a movie judge. I've been practicing the lines for decade.

"One more outburst like this and i'll clear thus courtroom!"

2 comments:

  1. I don't get it. If you don't want to believe in a God then don't. I am a Christian and when I was in the Air Force I used to have to endure an overzealous ‘witness’ for 10 hours about every 3 weeks since he was a higher rank than I and we got posted together on a mobile patrol. So I decided then that I would never 'preach' to another person about any of my beliefs. So why is it 80%+ of the population should have to bend over backwards for this super minority of atheists. So if you don't want to believe in a God then don't but leave the rest of us alone.
    After reading this post I just had to preach this one time...

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  2. How can you sue someone that you don't believe to exist? The judge should have put the cuffs on this fool for contempt of court.

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