A person decided to open up his bar business, which was right opposite to achurch. The church & its congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayed daily against his business.
Workprogressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to open afew 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 responsibilities 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, 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 prayers and we have an entire church and its devotees that doesn't !!'
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