Post VI: Ernie Chambers

When I first watched this video I could not believe what I was hearing. Ernie Chambers actually was actually filing a lawsuit against God. Ernie Chambers was claiming that God makes terroristic threats, tornados, and hurricanes causing widespread death. It kind of made me laugh when I first heard it because Chambers was actually accusing God of terrorism. I don’t think that is a winnable case. After I watched the video a second time I learned that there was more to it than just suing God. Chamber claims that he is trying to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits. The lawsuit that pushed him to file this charge was a sexual assault charge that had the words victim and rape were barred from trial. While Sent. Chambers is making an extreme point I do agree with him when it comes to ridiculous lawsuits. People are just using courts to get rich and make excuses for their behaviors. One example is a man sued a hospital because he claims the hospital was negligent because it had not prevented him from raping one of its patients. Another example is when parents are suing video games because it was the reason that their child committed a crime. It just makes me angry when I think of people not taking responsibility for their own actions.
Ernie Chambers is very liberal and I see this lawsuit against God being more than just making a point. He even stated another reason for filing this lawsuit was to show that conservatives and Christian groups have used the courts to advance their narrow minded views and “bigoted” agendas. Being a Christian myself I take offense to him trying to sue God because God is sovereignty over humanity. But I just find it hypocritical that Chambers claims that other groups are intolerable of other viewpoints when in fact he is doing the very same thing.