The Whorehouse and the Church.

Posted on by Opher
This interesting case was sent through to me from an old school-friend who now resides in Australia. I thought it was hilarious so I’m sharing it with you.
Thanks Graham!
What an interesting turn of events in Pahrump, Nevada..
 
Diamond D’s brothel began construction on an expansion of their building
to increase their ever-growing business.

In response, the local Baptist Church started a campaign to block the
business from expanding — with morning, afternoon, and evening prayer
sessions at their church.

Work on Diamond D’s progressed right up until the week before the
grand re-opening when lightning struck the whorehouse and burned it to
the ground!

After the brothel burned to the ground by the lightning strike, the
church folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about “the
power of prayer.”

But late last week ‘Big Jugs’ Jill Diamond, the owner/madam, sued the
church, the preacher and the entire congregation on the grounds that
the church … “was ultimately responsible for the demise of her
building and her business — either through direct or indirect divine
actions or means.”

In its reply to the court, the church vehemently and vociferously
denied any and all responsibility or any connection to the building’s
demise.

The crusty old judge read through the plaintiff’s complaint and the
defendant’s reply, and at the opening hearing he commented, “I don’t
know how the hell I’m going to decide this case, but it appears from
the paperwork, that we now have a whorehouse owner who staunchly
believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation
that thinks it’s all bullshit

11 thoughts on “The Whorehouse and the Church.”

  3. Hell of a lesson on putting your faith where your mouth is! I laughed so hard I had to look it up and see what happened. Found it on Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/prayer.asp

    Origins: Our earliest sighting of the item comes from a 2001 issue of “Smilers,” an online compendium of humor. It in turn gave as its source “Our Daily Bread,” a publication of RBC Ministries.

    The story is told of a man who got a permit to open the first tavern in a small town. The members of a local church were strongly opposed to the bar, so they began to pray that God would intervene. A few days before the tavern was scheduled to open, lightning hit the structure and it burned to the ground. The people of the church were surprised but pleased – until they received notice that the would-be tavern owner was suing them. He contended that their prayers were responsible for the burning of the building. They denied the charge. At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, the judge wryly remarked, “At this point I don’t know what my decision will be, but it seems that the tavern owner believes in the power of prayer and these church people don’t.”

    In that earlier telling, the name of the tavern and that of the town where the incident took place are not given. Later versions would flesh out the tale, such as a July 2007 blog post which presented the incident as having happened in “a small, Midwestern conservative town” and the August 2008 version given in the Example section above which dubbed the lightning-struck watering hole Drummond’s Bar and located it in Mt. Vernon, Texas.

    The story isn’t supposed to be read as relating something that happened in real life; it’s a modern day admonition to churchgoers to not allow transient secular
    needs to get in the way of their faith. What a person believes or will stand up for shouldn’t change because there’s a monetary factor involved; otherwise, it’s not true belief. As the fictional judge points out, there is something untoward about a congregation so willing to put worldly matters first that it denies it believes in prayer.

    While the tale is an exaggeration of its underlying moral, that overstatement is a way of prompting folks to measure the contents of their hearts against those of the fictional congregation to see if they themselves aren’t at times engaging in a bit of religious distancing. Do they set aside their faith, and their pride in it, when faith becomes inconvenient? Or do they stand up for their beliefs and proudly proclaim them, even when doing so is to their disadvantage, financial or otherwise?

    Barbara “standing order” Mikkelson

    Last updated: 10 January 2013

      1. I really appreciated and whole-heartedly agreed with it’s message! I’m tired of people of faith not putting their money where their mouth is. I have no patience for that. That’s one of MY soapboxes that’s sort of along the same vein of yours — but different.

      3. Sort of joke routine story Bob Monkhouse was doing 40 years ago. I’ve heard a hundred variations.

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