Any truth, TEXAS Bar Sues Church??

[oldcottonpicker]

Have any of you good people around Mt. Vernon ever heard about this, its making its way across the net in emails, I searched the net for it, but seems little can be found on it. I would like to know if there is any truth in it.

TEXAS Bar Sues Church

In a small Texas town,( Mt. Vernon ), Drummond's bar began construction on a new building to increase their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.

The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until 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 vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise in its reply to the court.

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

[stoneman67]

go to snopes.com and search "mt vernon"

[sad]

The story isn't supposed to be read as relating something that happened in real life; it's a modern day admonition to churchgoers not to allow transient secular needs to get in the way of their faith. What a person believes or will stand up for shouldn't change because there's a monetary factor involved; otherwise, it's not true belief. As the fictional judge points out, there is something untoward about a congregation so willing to put worldly matters first that it denies it believes in prayer.

While the tale is an exaggeration of its underlying moral, that overstatement is a way of prompting folks to measure the contents of their hearts against those of the fictional congregation to see if they themselves aren't at times engaging in a bit of religious distancing. Do they set aside their faith, and their pride in it, when faith becomes inconvenient? Or do they stand up for their beliefs and proudly proclaim them, even when doing so is to their disadvantage, financial or otherwise?

[MP native]

Very well put and insightful explanation , sad.

Matthew 10:33

[Sad can copy and paste]

Sad knows how to highlight text and copy and paste and claim as their own by not stating that the text came from Snopes. I do believe they call that plagiarism!

[MP native]

Ah well, I still like the post. If sad tries to win the Pulitzer we'll call on you to refute his / her claims to glory. ;o)