Posted on 08/18/2018 9:42:25 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Shocking moment a Kentucky snake-handling preacher is bitten and has to be carried from his church, four years after his pastor father was killed by a rattlesnake
This is the startling moment a controversial American pastor, whose father was killed after being bitten by a snake, is himself attacked by a serpent.
Cody Coots is the pastor at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus’ Name church in Middlesboro, Kentucky - one of America’s last remaining snake-handling churches.
During his sermon, Pastor Coots can be seen handling a snake as he preaches to his congregation.
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Matthew 4:7 for example, says, “Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”
“So this appeared in the UK Daily Mail?...”
Yea those stupid Brits that are being overtaken by MooseLimbs.
If your going to play with snakes you better know what they do.
Hope she has taken out a good life insurance policy on him.
Snake handlers.
The Daily Mail should be infiltrating mosques instead of backwoods churches.
I hope he doesn’t read about Daniel and the lion’s den while he’s recuperating.
I grew up with a kid who caught those snakes for the tent preachers.
The trick was that he would put the snakes into a giant freezer and *almost* chill the snakes to the freezing point.
He just barely kept them alive.
He’d take them out and prank our neighbors by letting them “thaw” on their front porch.
Huge fun to watch people squeel!
Anyway, not all of the preachers knew the “freeze” trick to handling the rattlers.
They didn’t last long.
On the other hand, all of the good con artists kept the snakes chilled until just before their sermons.
A good rattlesnake tent revival sermon is entertaining!
Not worth much more than entertainment, though.
Anyway, the moral of the story is that if you don’t know the freeze trick and handle rattlesnakes anyway, then you are going to be bitten.
It’s a parlor trick, not an Act Of God.
Good Grief.
I live in this community and this church is unique with its twisted view of scripture. This family is determined to be Darwin Award winners and end their bloodlines. 99.9% of the community thinks they are batcrap crazy.
Would you sell life insurance to Cody?
Yes, the Brits will see us as Bitter Clingers, clinging to our guns, God, and rattlesnakes.
What is shocking? He is playing with an Eastern Diamondback Rattle Snake
I agree.
Yep.
“There’s a reason why there aren’t too many snake-handling churches left in America.”
And probably absolutely none in Australia!
Just being a fool for Christ, I guess.
Anyone who routinely handles venomous snakes eventually gets bitten—multiple times. This pastor dude should reconsider his snake hobby.
Rattlesnake venom rarely kills, the number of rattlesnake-caused deaths in the U.S. is small. The venom paralyzes their prey and pre-digests the tissue affected. Most of the time a rattlesnake bite causes tissue damage, nothing more. In contrast, in Asia and India there are a lot of cobra-caused deaths, cobra venom is a neurotoxin.
.....which makes even more amazing the fact that 50 percent of a honey badger’s diet is cobras. The honey badgers are routinely bitten when they fight and kill cobras for food. They are fairly immune to cobra venom.
“Honey badger don’t care!” LOL!
Not cheaply.
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