Thank God I'm an atheist

Many a times, when I go to the temple and observe the pomp that goes around, I wish God says something to them - especially to the priests. When priesthood becomes a job or an occupation, it loses all the spiritual elements of facilitating a heavenly experience of God.

So, it was wonderful to read this little story sent by Nambi. Here it goes:

In a small town in Southern India, a person decided to open up his liquor business, which was right opposite to the Temple. The Temple & its congregation started a campaign to block the Bar from opening with petitions and prayed daily against his business.

Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the Bar and it was burnt to the ground. The temple folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the Bar owner sued the Temple authorities.


He argued on the grounds that the Temple through its congregation & prayers was ultimately responsible for the demise of his bar shop, either through direct or indirect actions or means. In its reply to the court, the temple vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to the bar shop's demise.

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 papers that, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire temple and its devotees that doesn't.'

How do you like this?