Snake handling pastor dies of snake bite during service

[OriginalGeek]

7. Yep, the snake has to be poisonous for it to count.

Jesus don't take kindly to fakers. Or fakirs.


I grew up in a fundamentalist, Independent Baptist church and home and we believed every single word of the King James Version of the bible was the literal and inspired word of God. Every story in it was true and actually happened (except, of course, where Jesus specifically said he was fixing to tell a parable) (oh, and except for "wine". Jesus turned the water into grape juice because alcohol is a sin).

We believed Jonah lived in a whale. Moses parted the Red Sea. Lot's wife was turned into salt. Noah got 2 of every animal on an ark and the world was flooded, killing everyone (but hey, we got rainbows for it!). Jesus walked on water and was killed for our sins and arose in 3 days. His momma was a virgin and god hates gays and the end times are near. We didn't believe Mormons or Catholics were even christian and we were leery of anyone who wasn't a Baptist but some of them Pentecostals were OK.

And even we believed those snake handlers were batshit insane.

eta: And that is part of my problem with religion. No matter what crazy bullshit you believe you can justify it as long as someone else is a little bit crazier. And once you establish that they are really crazy, then every thing you believe is just fine and normal because at least it's not that..