God is being sued.

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OMAHA, Neb -- State Senator Ernie Chambers is suing God. He says it to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits.

Chambers says senators periodically have offered bills prohibiting the filing of certain types of suits. He says his main objection is the constitution requires that the doors to the courthouse be open to all. Chambers said, "Thus anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody - even God."

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Chambers lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.

The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of alias, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is “Omnipresent”.

In the lawsuit Chambers says he’s tried to contact God numerous times, “Plaintiff, despite reasonable efforts to effectuate personal service upon Defendant (“Come out, come out, wherever you are”) has been unable to do so.”

The suit also requests that the court given the “peculiar circumstances” of this case waive personal service. It says being Omniscient, the plaintiff assumes God will have actual knowledge of the action.

The lawsuit accuses God “of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent.”

It says God has caused, “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like.”

The suit also says God has caused, “calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction.”

Chambers also says God “has manifested neither compassion nor remorse, proclaiming that Defendant “will laugh” when calamity comes.

Chambers asks for the court to grant him a summary judgment. He says as an alternative, he wants the judge to set a date for a hearing as “expeditiously” as possible and enter a permanent injunction enjoining God from engaging in the types of deleterious actions and the making of terroristic threats described in the lawsuit.

http://www.ketv.com/news/14133442/detail.html

I wanted to highlight the extra funny parts but realized that would consist of entire second half of the article. I really loved the alliteration in “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like.”.

Quite poetic. I can hear God at work, humming.
 
Honestly, it's about time someone held that bastard accountable for his actions. We let Him get away with far too much. A human responsible for a fraction of His atrocities would be reviled above all others.

I wonder what would happen if He lost the case, though? Sure, it's just a stunt and likely to be thrown out, but it'd be a laugh to see the legal ramifications of an injunction against God. Can we expect a contempt of court sentence for refusing to answer questions at the hearing? Evading arrest? Admit it, it'd be awesome. God driving down the interstate in a banged up chevy, police in tow, weaving across the road in mysterious ways.
 
Yes, god should be sued. Just because he is a diety, doesn't mean he is immune from being sued by a court of law.
 
:shake:That has already been tried and failed - they just cannot this god person to serve the papers - but maybe if they waive this requirement this one goes further :mischief:
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Not enough weirdness on earth - so:

Where is God's home?

yahoo news said:
Prosecutors cannot find God

A Romanian convict's legal action against God has failed - because prosecutors could not find God’s address.

Pavel Mircea, from Timisoara, who is serving a 20 year sentence for murder, launched legal action against God two years ago.

In his legal claim he stated: "God and I closed a contract when I was baptised and God did not respect his part of the deal.

"He was supposed to protect me from all evils and instead he gave me to Satan who encouraged me to kill."

And he demanded financial compensation for all the money he spent on candles and church services which he claims did not help him either.

But the prosecutors in Timisoara have decided to drop the case after two years.

A spokesman said: "We could not find God’s address. He has no home address."
 
God is everywhere, so he's also in jail.

He's been doing time ever since some cave became the first jail ever. Of course he is a little upset and needs to vent now and again.
 
The onion had a hilarious article breaking up the monopoly of God. Can't find it, though. :(
 
If he can't be found, then try him in absentia.

They should also bring back the dead to testify against the Vatican's vast 'fire and brimstone' fraud operation. Not to mention their psychological abuse.
 
Ernie is going to hell.
 
We should deal the same way we deal with other organisations that are above our laws - punish the corporations who truck with those organisations.

This is proud way of punishing the terrorists.
 
Only in America...

*waits for Ernie to be hit by the lightning*
 
Read the first part of my post punk :trouble:

Do you mean the "If he can't be found" part? You have only to search with Google to find a hundred people willing to talk about how they found God.

Now, if the court can't find God, that's a different story. ;)
 
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