May 24, 2006 12:12PM 

# And We Complain About America Being Too Litigious! 

By [Tom G. Palmer](https://www.cato.org/people/tom-g-palmer) 

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Check this out: the Catholic Church is being sued before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg…on the grounds that they have defrauded people by teaching that Jesus existed! The [BBC had a story](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4653200.stm) in January on this remarkable abuse of the legal system and the idea of “human rights.”

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