Home | Business News | Browse by Publication | A | American Atheist Magazine

Tsunami prompts lawsuit.

Publication: American Atheist Magazine
Publication Date: 22-DEC-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Galvanized by a tsunami that wrought incalculable devastation to villages, homes, and resorts, and claimed more than 160,000 lives when it swamped the coastlands of southern Asia, a multinational consortium of renegade theists has filed a class-action suit against God. Opening arguments in the case are provisionally scheduled to begin in early 2006 in an ad hoc court in the nation's capital. The aim of the suit, according to Barry Dirkowitz, attorney for the plaintiffs, is twofold: "to compel the defendant to restore all property and lives lost in the tsunami, and, secondly, to obtain a writ of interdiction barring further acts of God." The plaintiffs, said the attorney, would not seek compensatory damages for their own vicarious suffering while viewing raw footage of the calamity.

Rev. Harvey Culbert, president of Word Ministries, an...

View this article FREE - Now for a Limited Time, try Goliath Business News
Free for 3 Days!



More articles from American Atheist Magazine
Privileged pasture for a Trojan Horse.(Creationism's Trojan Horse: The..., December 22, 2004
Reason's unreasonable defender, faith's unlikely friend: a discussion ..., December 22, 2004
Schroder is robbing the state and still is exploiting Hitler's concord..., December 22, 2004
From Serapis to Jesus; An excerpt from To Water Instead of Blood: The ..., December 22, 2004

Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.

Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication name or publication date.

About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company analysis or best practices in managing your organization, Goliath can help you meet your business needs.

Our extensive business information databases empower business professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible, authoritative information they need to support their business goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting, company research or defining management best practices - Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.