Snake Salvation?

[SKP82]

It's totes natural to put God aka snake handling before your wife and children.

Also, if you're bitten you totes won't die because GOD and PRAYER.

[shostakovich]

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/andrew-hamblin-snake-handler_n_1572528.html

"Since the early 1900s, a handful of true believers in Eastern Tennessee and other parts of Appalachia have practiced the so-called signs of the gospel, found in a little-known passage in the King James Version of the Gospel of Mark:

'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.'"

They are going to be so bummed when they find out that "take up serpents" is just a euphemism...

(Edited to add link.)

[ginger]

Welcome to the South!

Some of my relatives still go to churches that snake handle.......

[ginger]

Yeah....

[ginger]

and feet washin' warshin' Sundays. Forgot about that.

Some of my family is...special.

[jacquie]

Sept 24, 2013 16:46:22 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/andrew-hamblin-snake-handler_n_1572528.html

"Since the early 1900s, a handful of true believers in Eastern Tennessee and other parts of Appalachia have practiced the so-called signs of the gospel, found in a little-known passage in the King James Version of the Gospel of Mark:

'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.'"

They are going to be so bummed when they find out that "take up serpents" is just a euphemism...

(Edited to add link.)

Appalachia? Moonshine? It's all starting to make sense.

[Deleted]

There was a really great photo essay on this a little while ago. It was very interesting because the man was bit by a poisonous snake and the journalist had to decide whether or not to intervene.

I'll see if I can find it.

[Deleted]

Found it!

m.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-west-virginia-pastor-pays-the-price-for-his-faith/2012/05/31/gJQAawRl5U_gallery.html