Nebraska Senator Sues God to Stop Terror Threats

[R'as al Ghul]

From here

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."

Likewise the suit accuses God of having his chroniclers "disseminate in written form, said admissions, throughout the Earth in order to inspire fear, dread, anxiety, terror and uncertainty, in order to coerce obedience to Defendant's will."

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."

The senator also wants the court to issue a permanent injunction prohibiting God from issuing plagues and terrorist threats. It's unclear how this could work since God is usually understood to be all powerful.

Chambers does admit that God is omnipresent and omniscient, however. Since God is everywhere, the Nebraska court has jurisdiction, Chambers argues, and since God is all-knowing, Chambers need not serve him with a notice of the lawsuit.

The lawsuit indicates that Chambers attempted to make God appear in order to serve him by saying "Come out, come out, wherever you are," but the Almight declined, like many defendants, to make it easy for a plaintiff to serve him with court papers.

Chambers filed the suit to make a point that the state constitution allows lawsuits to be filed for any reason, according to WOWT.

Attempts to reach Chambers for comment were unsuccessful.

God did not immediately respond to a non-denominational prayer for comment by this reporter.

The suit is Chambers v. God.

This time we'll get him...

[R'as al Ghul]

This was already posted in "News of the Weird".
Forgive me.

[FactionHeir]

Yup, blame me
Original post in News of the Weird

[R'as al Ghul]

Yup, blame me

Why just blame when I can sue you?

[FactionHeir]

Nah, you'd have to sue god. He's responsible!

[R'as al Ghul]

Nah, you'd have to sue god. He's responsible!

I'll wait for the sentence first.

[Fragony]

Good luck getting a lawyer there

[Husar]

I would be funny if that Senator now got struck by a lightning in his backyard...

Makes me wonder who will defend god in court?

[Zaknafien]

the pope?

[Gregoshi]

The Senator loses the case the moment the first witness raises their right hand and places their left on the Bible...

And if he wins, good luck collecting...

And if he manages to collect, all that money will have "In God we trust" printed on it.

Whether I believed in Him or not, God is the last person I'd want to piss of for the sake of demonstrating the absurdity of frivilous lawsuits. I'd pick some one safer like Paris Hilton, who would also appreciate the publicity seeing as she hasn't made the headlines in nearly three weeks.

[Geoffrey S]

But then, God hasn't really been making the headlines Himself recently, could do with some good press.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

stupid idoits. It better get throwed out or this country is going to hell.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

the pope?

At present, Rice would probably deny him a visa....

[AntiochusIII]

stupid idoits. It better get throwed out or this country is going to hell.

*cough satire cough*

The Senator is being satirical. And for God's sake I hope he wins.

[spmetla]

If he wins the lottery will it be considered even?

[Marshal Murat]

'If the cross don't fit, you must acquit!'

[Boyar Son]

ya well, some pple are complete idiots and, others arent....

[Seamus Fermanagh]

ya well, some pple are complete idiots and, others arent....

Some days are rainy, others aren't....

[Boyar Son]

but how is this guy gonna pull it off?

[Gregoshi]

but how is this guy gonna pull it off?

Do you think he doesn't have a prayer COSSACK?

[Boyar Son]

Do you think he doesn't have a prayer COSSACK?

[InsaneApache]

Now then, he said he's going to sue god, but which one?

The father, the son or the holy ghost. Mebbe allah, vishnu or baal? Perhaps he's going way back to gaia and the hundred handed ones?

Ah the choices one has in life!

[Pannonian]

Now then, he said he's going to sue god, but which one?

The father, the son or the holy ghost. Mebbe allah, vishnu or baal? Perhaps he's going way back to gaia and the hundred handed ones?

Ah the choices one has in life!

Don't some of the eastern religions believe that one can find God in oneself? In which case, is he suing himself?

[Husar]

The father, the son or the holy ghost. Mebbe allah,

Allah is just the arabic word for God in a monotheistic sense, not a different god than the one in Christianity(the difference lies in how you believe he should be worshipped). If you have different gods(polytheistic), the word for god is ilah IIRC(it does pay off to talk to Faisal in the chat ).

Also the father, the son and the holy ghost, are they one entitity in front of the law or three different ones? I guess that could be a difficult one to judge given the peculiarities of the trinity. Now if we're going to sue a hundred handed one, does he need 50 bibles to swear on or? Well, if he exists it makes no sense to swear on any bible since, well, you get my point.

[CountArach]

Now then, he said he's going to sue god, but which one?

The father, the son or the holy ghost. Mebbe allah, vishnu or baal? Perhaps he's going way back to gaia and the hundred handed ones?

Ah the choices one has in life!

He is suing Aeth.

[Ronin]

the paperwork on this is gonna be a *****!

[Sigurd]

I guess he is suing the first cause or the necessary being?
Nah.. the reason for taking the first cause to the court is the first cause's continuous involvment in letting bad things happen to innocent people.

... I thought only the mormons believe in continous revelation and Godly visitations. The others seem to have closed the heavens with their Deistic beliefs.



Oh.. wait. The Mormons are quite rich aren't they?

[Mikeus Caesar]

Some Romanian guy recently tried to sue God, but they had to withdraw the case as the defendant could not be found...

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

SO if He wins......

How he going to collect?

[FactionHeir]

Go from church to church taking the donations?