{"id":300,"date":"2007-07-12T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2007-07-12T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T23:22:17","slug":"case-against-god-dismissed-in-romanian-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Case against God dismissed in Romanian court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Bucharest, Romania<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlepage.aspx?area=\/breaking_news\/other_news\/&#038;articleid=313718\">www.mg.co.za<\/a><br \/>\n11 July 2007 04:09<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/cross.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Cross\">A Romanian man who sued God for &#8220;fraud&#8221; and &#8220;betrayal of trust&#8221; for failing to answer his prayers has had his case dismissed in court, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mircea Pavel (40), who is serving 20 years in prison for murder, brought charges against &#8220;the defendant God, who lives in the heavens and is represented in Romania by the Orthodox Church&#8221;, the daily Evenimentul Zilei reported.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe accused God of &#8220;fraud, betrayal of trust, corruption and influence peddling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At my christening, I made a deal with the defendant aimed at freeing me from evil. But the latter has not respected that agreement until now, although he received from me various assets and numerous prayers,&#8221; Pavel wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Timisoara, in western Romania, dismissed the case, ruling that &#8220;God is not subject to law and does not have an address&#8221;. &#8212; Sapa-AFP <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlepage.aspx?area=\/breaking_news\/other_news\/&#038;articleid=313718\">Source : www.mg.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucharest, Romania www.mg.co.za 11 July 2007 04:09 A Romanian man who sued God for &#8220;fraud&#8221; and &#8220;betrayal of trust&#8221; for failing to answer his prayers has had his case dismissed in court, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Mircea Pavel (40), who is serving 20 years in prison for murder, brought charges against &#8220;the defendant God, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Case against God dismissed in Romanian court<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}