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...were devout Catholics is like saying the sun runs a little hot...One of their earliest dates was Mass followed by a rosary. As a kid hearing my mother tell the story for the umpteenth time, I could only sit, mouth agape, in something approaching mortification, thinking, Oh my God, I have the squarest parents in the universe...
...would almost automatically assume that the Douglas County, Neb., District Court does not hold jurisdiction over the omnipotent creator of the universe. State senator Ernie Chambers, however, took it upon himself to challenge that assumption last year, when he filed a lawsuit against God...
...particular, Chambers charged God with “making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of the Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent…[and often causing] calamitous catastrophes resulting in the widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction...
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, is the question of whether using God, even symbolically, as a political tool within the courts is appropriate for a secular legal system. Though the case was summarily dismissed, the very fact that the complaint was heard at all involved an implicit state acknowledgement of the existence of God. Given cases like the 2005 Supreme Court decision banning a public display of the Ten Commandments in Kentucky (although a similar decision allowed a monument in Texas on historical grounds), we may call the introduction of the (specifically Christian) divine into American jurisprudence a clear...
Katter accused the government of making human sacrifices to a crocodile god, saying, "The only time I'd like to see that croc is through the sights of my rifle." Once, if a crocodile ate a human, all crocodiles in the area would be shot immediately, he says. "Now they are getting X rays. You've got patients who can't get X rays or endoscopies in Queensland's hospitals, but a crocodile...