Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers filed suit against God Friday, asking a court to order the Almighty and his followers to stop making terrorist threats.
The suit (.pdf), filed in a Nebraska district court, contends that God, along with his followers of all persuasions, "has made and continues to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons." Those threats are credible given God's history, Chambers' complaint says.
Believe it or not, this is from the AP, not The Onion. The senator is even taking pro-active steps to serve papers:
The lawsuit indicates that Chambers attempted to make God appear in order to serve him by saying "Come out, come out, wherever you are," but the Almight declined, like many defendants, to make it easy for a plaintiff to serve him with court papers.
Something tells me that this won't turn out so well for Sen. Chambers...
Comments (4)
Partial story. There is a serious point: The suit is being filed in protest to a series of bills that are trying to reduce or eliminate the power of the courts. Chambers is trying to make the point that the constitution says *everyone* should have the right to make use of the courts, for any purpose on which they have good standing for their case, and that the legislative branch would be exceeding its authority if it were to pass a law that forbade the courts from hearing a particular class of suit (See the Freedom of Religion Act, which makes it very hard for people to sue for violation of the establishment cause, thus making a first-ammendment princible unenforceable) or if it placed a deliberate obstical in the way of legal action (Eg, if it classified vital evidence as a state secret, as happened in the illegal wiretapping incidents) in order to influence the outcome of a case.
September 18, 2007 12:52 PM | Comment Permalink
Where does he get the idea that God causes earthquakes or any natural disasters?
September 21, 2007 5:54 PM | Comment Permalink
Well, the legal term is "Acts of God." In addition, after any major disaster, there will be a significent number of people declaring that it was God's punishment on the country hit for something-or-other. The exact something depends on who is doing the declaring, though homosexuality seems to be a common reason given.
Example: After the tsunami, Robertson declared it was God's punishment for Muslims being muslim. After Katrina, Robertson declared it was God's punishment for tolerating homosexuals during the mardi gras celebrations. After both incidents, Phelps claimed it was God's punishment for tolerating homosexuality.
Finally, if God has omnipotence, He must be able to prevent the disasters - so, even if He didn't cause them, it is only through His inaction that they may happen. That doesn't make his inaction illegal in the case of natural disasters, but it becomes very illegal when extended to terrorist attacks.
September 28, 2007 2:41 AM | Comment Permalink
He is omniscient and knows better than you
October 8, 2007 4:31 PM | Comment Permalink