Unlikely Believers

I read this in a blog and was completely moved by the story. So decided to put it on my blog ! Hope you like it....

(Contributed by Vipin Buckshey in one of Khushwant Singh's columns.)

In a small town in India, a person decided to open a bar right opposite to a temple. The temple and its congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening, and prayed daily against the business. Work progressed. However,when it was almost complete and was about to open in a few days' time, a strong lightening struck the bar and it was burnt to the ground. The temple
folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the bar owner sued the temple authorities on the grounds that the temple, through its congregation and prayers, was ultimately responsible for the demise of his bar shop, either through direct or indirect means. In its reply to court, the temple authorities vehemently denied all responsibility, or any connection that their prayers might have with the bar's demise. As the case made its way to court, the judge looked
over the paperwork at the hearing and commented, "I don't know how I'm going to decide this case, but it appears from the papers, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire temple and its devotees who don't."