In a small town, a person decided to open up a brothel right opposite a church. The church and its congregation started a campaign with petitions to block the brothel from opening and prayed daily against his business.
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>Work progressed. But when the brothel was complete and about to open, lightning struck it and burnt it to the ground. The church folks were rather smug after that, till the brothel owner sued the church authorities on the grounds that the church through its congregation and prayers was ultimately responsib le for the destruction of his brothel, either through direct or indirect actions or means.
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>In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection, or that their prayers were reasons for the act of God.
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>As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork at the hearing and commented: "I don't know how I'm going to decide this case, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a brothel owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire church that doesn't."