News Article: Reality show snake-handling preacher dies -- of snakebite

[Bamaro]

(CNN) -- A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality show about snake-handling in church has died -- of a snakebite.

Jamie Coots died Saturday evening after refusing to be treated, Middleborough police said.

On "Snake Salvation," the ardent Pentecostal believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural South.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/16/us/snake-salvation-pastor-bite/

Oops

 

[Bodhisattva]

Darwin finds a way.

 

[seebell]

I didn't even get to see the show!

 

[Bodhisattva]

This might be the only real thing that has ever happened on reality tv.

 

[seebell]

This might be the only real thing that has ever happened on reality tv.

Don't know which I like better, Hollywood Hillbillies or Lizard Lick Towing.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Don't know which I like better, Hollywood Hillbillies or Lizard Lick Towing.

I've only seen the commercials for both, and that was enough for me.

The fat grandma getting the spray tan ..... lawd have mercy

 

[CajunCrimson]

"Isn't it Ironic -- don't ya think?"

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I was gonna post this earlier today (from my office at the church no less!) but I was signed out and too lazy to sign back in. That's at least the third I've heard in the last three years or so. I had a friend who graduated from a Pentecostal Bible School back in the 1980s and we talked about this one time (it was in 1992). Rejecting this practice as....well a misinterpretation to put it mildly - I threw out the hypothetical, "So what if a guy got bit and died while showing his faith?" Without batting an eye, he said, "The guy was an unbeliever."

Ok. Does anyone seriously think the minister at this dude's funeral is going to say, "He went to Hell?"

On a related note....how many of you have ever heard the Wendy Bagwell story about singing in a Kentucky church where they handled snakes? It was done in the 1970s but pretty good.

 

[Bama Torch in Pcola]

I'm normally not one to kick a guy's dogma, but this is insane.

 

[Catfish]

Due to his infinite grace and love for me, the Lord has given me the wisdom not to mess with rattle snakes.

 

[ValuJet]

I'm not sure where I'm gonna spend the Afterlife. But the deciding factor ain't gonna be from the result of a snake bite. :frown:

 

[AUDub]

Due to his infinite grace and love for me, the Lord has given me the wisdom not to mess with rattle snakes.

"Pray to God, but row away from the rocks."
-Hunter S. Thompson

 

[alabama mike1]

A misinterpretation is an understatement of taking up serpents. I guess this preacher does not believe it anymore.

I remember Wendy Bagwell and The Sonlighters and the story about the snakes.

 

[bamabelle1991]

Would it be horribly bad to laugh just a little?

 

[Catfish]

Would it be horribly bad to laugh just a little?

I don't think you'd be human if you didn't. Which raises an interesting question. If we are created in God's image and we (most of us, anyway) have a sense of humor. Is God's sense of humor like ours? Does he get a little laugh out of the ridiculous irony of things like this? And, more importantly, does he think the joke about Jesus and Moses playing golf at Augusta is funny? Because I sure do. But, I feel the tiniest bit guilty about laughing at it.

 

[ValuJet]

I don't think you'd be human if you didn't. Which raises an interesting question. If we are created in God's image and we (most of us, anyway) have a sense of humor. Is God's sense of humor like ours? Does he get a little laugh out of the ridiculous irony of things like this? And, more importantly, does he think the joke about Jesus and Moses playing golf at Augusta is funny? Because I sure do. But, I feel the tiniest bit guilty about laughing at it.

I didn't hear that one.

 

[Catfish]

I didn't hear that one.

First of all, I'm sure the hole number, yardage, etc. are off, but it's not really important to the joke.

Moses and Jesus are playing at Augusta. They're on hole 12, a 280-yard par 4 over water. Jesus pulls out a driver and prepares to tee off. Moses says' "No way you can carry that pond. Better use an iron and lay up."

Jesus says, "Nope. Arnold Palmer, 1967 Masters, 12th hole, driver, right next to the cup." He then puts his shot in the pond. Moses goes down, parts the water and bring Jesus his ball back. He says, "Use an iron this time. I am NOT getting your ball if you go in the pond again."

Jesus says, "Nope. Arnold Palmer, 1967 Masters, 12th hole, driver, right next to the cup." He promptly puts it in the pond again. He asks Moses to get the ball for him, but Moses says, "No way. I told you not to use the driver. I told you you couldn't carry the pond. And, I told you I wasn't going to get your ball again."

Jesus pleads with him to get the ball, but Moses won't budge. So Jesus goes to the pond and walks out on the water, feeling around under the surface for his ball. A foursome comes up to the tee box and sees this guy walking on the water. One of them says, "What the heck? Who does that guy think he is, Jesus Christ?"

Moses says, "He is Jesus Christ. He thinks he's Arnold Palmer."

 

[G-VilleTider]

As a more famous poster is fond of saying, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I don't think you'd be human if you didn't. Which raises an interesting question. If we are created in God's image and we (most of us, anyway) have a sense of humor. Is God's sense of humor like ours? Does he get a little laugh out of the ridiculous irony of things like this? And, more importantly, does he think the joke about Jesus and Moses playing golf at Augusta is funny? Because I sure do. But, I feel the tiniest bit guilty about laughing at it.

One time a preacher called in to his flock that he was sick and wouldn't be there one particular Sunday. His reason was that it was such a pretty day, and he wanted to play golf. So he goes out on the links. Moses informs God, who says, "I'll fix him." The guy then hits the most amazing shot, launching it up and towards one of those impossible holes, it bounces twice and on the roll lands for a "hole in one."

Moses is real upset. "God, you just let him hit the greatest shot in the history of golf." To which God replied, "Now who's he gonna go tell?"

 

[CrimsonSEC]

Here's one that may be more applicable to the thread...

During the height of a once a century flood, a man is forced onto the roof of his house by the rising flood waters. As the water rages by his house, a man pulls up to his roof in a small jon boat and offers to take him to higher ground. The man says, "No thanks, I live by the grace of God and he will protect me here." The boater reluctantly leaves him. A couple of hours later the water has risen a few more feet and forced the man to the peak of his roof. Along comes a police boat and they tell the man to climb aboard. The man then repeats his earlier statement "No thanks, I live by the grace of God and he will protect me here." The cop says, "Well I can't force you to leave your property, so good luck."

Two hours after that the man is forced up on the top of his chimney and a helicopter flies up and lowers a man down to him. Again, "No thanks, I live by the grace of God and he will protect me here." Well, the man drowns and makes his way through the Pearly Gates for his audience with the Lord. He asks God, "My Lord , why did you forsake me and let me drown?" To which God replied, "What are you talking about? I sent you two boats and a helicopter."