Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers (D – Omaha) 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.
Chambers, in a fit of alliteration, also accuses God of causing “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like.”
Chambers, who has represented Omaha, Nebraska since 1970, asked the Douglas County district court for summary judgment or to set a quick hearing date “if the Court deems such a hearing not to be a futile act.”
| Apparently Chambers was angered by a recent lawsuit that he considered frivolous and is trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody. If the court accepts this one, we’re all in trouble. |
#33 & #34
I’ve been looking and I cannot find the quote about Ernie Chamber’s effectiveness.
Sorry for making a comment I couldn’t back up
#56 – sounds like a good read. You wouldn’t happen to remember who wrote it would you?
>>and those are the only three guys in history you can dig up who
>>were evil and unrelatedly atheist
Oh no, they’re just the most popular, and the ones who killed the most hundreds of millions of people for their religious beliefs.
And wtf does “unrelatedly atheist” mean? Are they any less related than the Crusaders and Ted Haggard? They (Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin) killed people because the believers didn’t share the same religious beliefs that the atheists did. You need more of a “relationship” than that?
#51 JimR
Didn’t you know? OMG, God is a Monkey!
Well, at least that’s what this discussion is all about:
http://tinyurl.com/ytfkys
51. JimR :- Muslim’s believe that their God had a profit named Jesus who lived a very similar live to the Jesus the Son of God. They believe their version of Jesus’ story contradicts the Christian’s story of Jesus and is the accurate version of the story and that the Christian’s have an inaccurate version. However, the Muslim’s do believe in the same Jesus as Christian’s do because their Jesus was not the son of God and was not crucified (instead when someone offered to take the cross Jesus ran away, according the Islamic tale).
53. OhForTheLoveOf :- True that Judaism, Islam, Christianity and (I think) Sheikism too all have a creations stories which, from a historical prospective are developed from a previous story (The Epic of Gilgamesh) that comes from the Middle East (modern-day Iraq, then Mesepotania). However, that still doesn’t make them the same. The ancient Mesepotanians did cool things like had a ritual every year where the leader of the country was de-crowned, de-robbed, then had to a walk a gauntlet of citizens who’d beat the leader with sticks just to remind how shit they were compared to the gods. None of the modern Old Testimate based religions would ever do anything that cool, so I can’t see how they are the same. (guess did a minor in Ancient Civilizations back in his days at Uni). As someone else pointed out, its a bit like saying we are all Monkey’s just because we share a common ancestry with apes….
#65 – Ben Waymark,
Actually, a truly correct set of statements regarding our evolution would be:
We are all apes because we are descended from apes.
We share a common ancestor with monkeys but are not evolved from monkeys and hence are not monkeys.
We are primates due to that common ancestor, as are monkeys.
67. Misanthropic Scott :- I stand correct. I am an ape (and a code monkey, but that is beside the point….)
#67 – Ben,
I’m a code monkey too. But, yes, that’s besides the point.
I retract my comment about god’s lawyers. If god is in heaven, how will he ever find a lawyer?
[rimshot]
All lawyers, please forgive me….
I couldn’t agree more…