Serpent-Handling pastor dies from rattlesnake bite (atheist, Christians, Lord, exist)
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I have to say that I just shake my head and giggle just a little every time I hear one of these stories. I honestly feel no sympathy for people who bring things like this upon themselves via their own stupidity.
There was a similar story some 15 years ago about one of these NewAge twinkie "my grandmother was a Cherokee princess" wannabe types who adopted his own convoluted version of native beliefs. He died from a rattlesnake bite. Apparently, he believed because he had "medicine" he could follow "brother rattlesnake" around to "learn from him." When the snake went into it's den, this fool stuck his face in there. Yep, the snake bit him right in that prying "spirtchul" face. I just imagine that moment of horrifying self-realization that he was indeed a fool.
Old brother rattlesnake don't like it when you're stick your nose into his private dwellings.......
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A "serpent-handling" West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man had apparently watched a snake kill his father years before.
This is what guides these religious snake-handlers to do what they do...
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Snake-handlers point to scripture as evidence that God calls them to engage in such a practice to show their faith in him. Mark 16: 17-18 reads, "And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
A "serpent-handling" West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man had apparently watched a snake kill his father years before.
Learning from mistakes of the past clearly not on this guys radar. A common trait for those that spend a lifetime clinging to ignorance of the bronze age.
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But Scripture also prohibits tempting God. We are not to do these things on purpose.
Yes, I had a look at the much shorter parallel thread on Christianity and it had this idea that you can drink poison or handle poisonous snakes and God promises that they will not harm you....but only so long as you don't try it - and then they will harm you so as to teach you not to Tempt Him.
Or there was the suggestion that he wasn't handling it right...troo ' nuff...he was using faith instead of leather gloves.
I don't find it hilarious that the snake handler got bit...it is very sad...we shouldn't laugh...no...stop it! But I do find the wriggling excuses amusing.
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Yes, I had a look at the much shorter parallel thread on Christianity and it had this idea that you can drink poison or handle poisonous snakes and God promises that they will not harm you....but only so long as you don't try it - and then they will harm you so as to teach you not to Tempt Him.
