God got sued

[jamac]

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/09/5497_ernie_chambers.html

It had to happen at some point.

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."


If he wins followers of god would have to be seen as terrorists and sent to Guantanamo.
Organized religions would have to be treated as terrorist organizations.

I guess God is no longer boring after all.

[bobmarksdale]

That's gonna work out well...

[mydo]

MoJo is being sloppy in their reporting. Someone in Italy just tried this in the past year or so. I guess it's "original" now that it's in the US?:???:

[@_@ Artman]

Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091807R.shtml)

A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a US Army major, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. The suit charges the Pentagon with widespread constitutional violations by allegedly trying to force the soldier to embrace evangelical Christianity and then retaliating against him when he refused.

The complaint, filed in US District Court in Kansas City, by the nonprofit Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), on behalf of Jeremy Hall, an Army specialist currently on active duty in Speicher, Iraq, alleges that Hall's First Amendment rights were violated beginning last Thanksgiving when, because of his atheist beliefs, he declined to participate in a Christian prayer ceremony commemorating the holiday.

"Immediately after plaintiff made it known he would decline to join hands and pray, he was confronted, in the presence of other military personnel, by the senior ranking ... staff sergeant who asked plaintiff why he did not want to pray, whereupon plaintiff explained because he is an atheist," says the lawsuit, a copy of which was provided to Truthout. "The staff sergeant asked plaintiff what an atheist is and plaintiff responded it meant that he (plaintiff) did not believe in God. This response caused the staff sergeant to tell plaintiff that he would have to sit elsewhere for the Thanksgiving dinner. Nonetheless, plaintiff sat at the table in silence and finished his meal."

Moreover, the complaint alleges that on August 7, when Hall received permission by an Army chaplain to organize a meeting of other soldiers who shared his atheist beliefs, his supervisor, Army Major Paul Welborne, broke up the gathering and threatened to retaliate against the soldier by charging him with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The complaint also alleges that Welborne vowed to block Hall's reenlistment in the Army if the atheist group continued to meet - a violation of Hall's First Amendment rights under the Constitution. Welborne is named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

"During the course of the meeting, defendant Welborne confronted the attendees, disrupted the meeting and interfered with plaintiff Hall's and the other attendees' rights to discuss topics of their interests," the lawsuit alleges.

The complaint charges that Hall, who is based at Fort Riley, Kansas, has been forced to "submit to a religious test as a qualification to his post as a soldier in the United States Army," a violation of Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation said Defense Secretary Robert Gates is named as a defendant in the lawsuit because he has allowed the military to engage in "a pattern and practice of constitutionally impermissible promotions of religious beliefs within the Department of Defense and the United States military."

What a quote:

"Today, we are boldly stabbing back against an unconstitutional heart of darkness, a contagion of fundamentalist religious supremacy and triumphalism noxiously dominating the command and control of the technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind: our honorable and noble United States armed forces."

[jamac]

An organization using torture technology (the cross) as their logo should be regarded as a terrorist organization in any case.

Believe or be terrorised by god. In his absence we'll take care of the terrorising in his name, he is too busy talking to Bush.

"God help us ...?"

[Jubelum]

MoJo is being sloppy in their reporting. Someone in Italy just tried this in the past year or so. I guess it's "original" now that it's in the US?:???:

Mojo... sloppy? Surely you jest... :lol:

As far as the "originality" thing, this is the same publication that advocates an ideology that fails and gets a lot of people killed every time it is tried.

[Jubelum]

An organization using torture technology (the cross) as their logo should be regarded as a terrorist organization in any case.

:lol:

Oh, speak to us, Great Sage of Moonbat, speak...

[Jubelum]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t261/jubelum_ammo/mccann_jesus.jpg

[franksargent]

http://www.adrants.com/images/mccann2.jpg

[JimDreamworx]

Oh, what the hell? This topic is in two different areas:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Oh_god.jpg/200px-Oh_god.jpg

[Jubelum]

I love those ads... :lol:

[segovius]

Hold on...... for this suit to be valid then God must exist or there is no point.

If that is the case, then God owns the copyright on humans, earthquakes, floods etc.

So he can do what he Goddam likes.....case dismissed.

[Jubelum]

If that is the case, then God owns the copyright on humans, earthquakes, floods etc.


Man, those licensing fees are gonna SUCK. Hope Apple legal has considered this... :\

[jamac]

Hold on...... for this suit to be valid then God must exist or there is no point.

If that is the case, then God owns the copyright on humans, earthquakes, floods etc.

So he can do what he Goddam likes.....case dismissed.

The existence of god is verified on US money as well as in the pledge. Copyright has a time limit, therefore gods "inventions" and "writings" are now in public domain. There are no registered trademarks in his name either.

If publishers of the bible would have to pay royalties for every bible ever printed, god could retire and afford a good lawyer.:lol:

[segovius]

The existence of god is verified on US money as well as in the pledge. Copyright has a time limit, therefore gods "inventions" and "writings" are now in public domain. There are no registered trademarks in his name either.

If publishers of the bible would have to pay royalties for every bible ever printed, god could retire and afford a good lawyer.:lol:

Sshhh, don't tell Him ffs....

You know how He gets with floods and stuff.....if He realizes He could just zap the whole thing and start again - only this time not creating lawyers.

hey...on second thoughts, maybe it's worth a quiet word....

[@_@ Artman]

Who's gonna subpoena God? Pat Robertson? :rolleyes:

[segovius]

Who's gonna subpoena God? Pat Robertson? :rolleyes:

I think that's a great choice - as long as he delivers it personally.....