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Home | Friday 17th October 2008 | Issue 651

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AND FINALLY 651

An audacious legal attempt to rid the world of religious conflict came a cropper in the US courts this week. Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers was seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the �death, destruction and terrorisation of millions upon millions of the Earth�s inhabitants - caused by God. �

Unfortunately humanity were the losers as the judge threw out the case by ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served.

Counter arguments that as the court had tacitly acknowledged the existence of God, and God knows everything - so he must know have known about the lawsuit - were rejected. God in the dock? That�ll be the deity...



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