Chambers v. God
from Jewschool by BZ
Another guest post from feygele:
Wired reports that
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, 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.”
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I think that this man is not only making a mockery of the legal system however his claim is absolutely ludicrous. How can you make a legal suit against a supernatural being? One that doesn’t physically exist. Along with the fact that there is no evidence that God actually does exist for sure. Who would represent God and how can he defend himself in court? What type of restitution is the senator hoping to be paid? I just think that all these questions prove how unnecessary this lawsuit is since nothing is definite and for sure.
I agree with Lisa, how can someone sue a supernatural being? There are way too many complications to even consider taking legal actions against God.
As well the catastrophes that he is accusing God of making aren't even caused by God. Things like floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts and more are a result of human irresponsibility to the environment. Along with genocidal wars is the direct result of human behaviour. There are just too many details about God and the world to make such an extreme law suit. In my personal opnion it is ridiculous and a waste of time.
From what I recall Held saying and from what I've read in other sources covering the story, the point the plantiff is trying to make, more so than sueing g-d, is that there has to be a limit on what one can sue for.
This is certainly an extreme example but in ethics we work with extremes and I think this gets the point across. There has to be some guidelines for sueing, which I suppose are not currently present in Nebraska, so that the system is not made a mockey of such as it was in Chambers vs. G-d.
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