Psalms used to settle court case in USA.

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Evidently an atheist in Florida hired a lawyer to bring a discrimination case against Christians and Jews and the observance of holy days. His argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognised days.

When the case came before the judge and after he had listened to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, he banged his gavel and declared the case dismissed.

The lawyer objected to the ruling asking how the case could be dismissed as Christians had Christmas, Easter and others and the Jews had Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah but his client and other atheists had no such holidays.

The judge said " Yes they do. The calendar says April 1st is April Fool's Day. Psalm 14 verse 1 states ' The fool has said in his heart there is no God.' So it is the opinion of this court that if your client says there is no God he is a fool and April 1st is his day."

What a very wise judge ( It is not April 1st ).

VCC

[Simon]

Very cute, VCC!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Evidently

The "evidence" being ... ?

[MrGongGong]

The "evidence" being ... ?

Quite !
interesting use of the word "wise" IMV

[jean]

This is a joke that has been widely circulated over the years and we have found no evidence of any such court case.

[MrGongGong]

It "evidently" needs "faith" methinks

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This is a joke that has been widely circulated over the years and we have found no evidence of any such court case.

Jean,

I know, but I thought it would entice out Mr Gong Gong from his recent hiding place and give him a laugh.

I thought it would cheer him up after such a bad week for the atheists. You know, Richard Dawkins being neatly skewered by Canon Giles Fraser and that fool of a councillor from Bideford who made such a fuss about prayers before council meetings and then rejoiced at the fact that he lost the main point of principle of his complaint and won on the detail of some obscure part of the Local Government Act that is about to be superseded anyway!!

VCC

[MrGongGong]

I thought it would cheer him up after such a bad week for the atheists. You know, Richard Dawkins being neatly skewered by Canon Giles Fraser and that fool of a councillor from Bideford who made such a fuss about prayers before council meetings and then rejoiced at the fact that he lost the main point of principle of his complaint and won on the detail of some obscure part of the Local Government Act that is about to be superseded anyway!!

VCC

Strange how some people see the world ???
Giles Fraser sounded a total idiot when I listened
his whole argument seemed to be
"Dawkins get's a title wrong ................. ergo god exists"

clutching at straws more like !

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Strange how some people see the world ???
Giles Fraser sounded a total idiot when I listened
his whole argument seemed to be
"Dawkins get's a title wrong ................. ergo god exists"

clutching at straws more like !

Mr GG

No more idiotic than Dawkins saying that because you can't remember the name of the first book of the New Testament you can't be a Christian but it was good to hear his plea to God in his time of trouble!

VCC

[Boilk]

The judge said "...Psalm 14 verse 1 states 'The fool has said in his heart there is no God.' So it is the opinion of this court that if your client says there is no God he is a fool and April 1st is his day."

What a very wise judge.

Why at a terribly unwise judge. Basing an "opinion of this court" directly from a statment in Psalms, he is ideologically aligning himself (and the court) with a book of the Hebrew/Christian bible, and against the plaintiff. His stance is supposed to be objective and non-partisan.

In short, he's saying that non-believers must be fools because I'm with the believers.