“Homer I was born a snake handler...and I'll die a snake handler”
Last name is appropriate.
Live by the snake . . .
“Homer I was born a snake handler...and I'll die a snake handler”
It was God’s will.
“Hold muh Bible and watch this.”
Remember boys and girls, all you need to do is read the Bible and interpret it yourself.
He should have been a snake oil salesman.
RIP.
RIP, ole coot...
And thus, another self inflicted victim of the “What could go wrong?” society.
I always thought the Bible warned about the serpent.
A church goer took this picture the moment the preacher being bit on the face.
I guess Jesus wanted him to die. Isn’t that what these freaks say?
We watched that series, these guys refuse all medical treatment if they are bitten.
There’s snack handler churches all over the coal fields of West Virgina.
All this because some people don’t seem to understand the Jewish predilection for hyperbole.
Camels in the eyes of needles, moving mountains with the power of mustard seeds, planks of wood sticking out of eyeballs, swallowing camels while straining at swallowing gnats, picking up snakes...
Get. A. Clue. People.
Never trust a snake, even if he works for a prestigious law firm.
According to the Lexington Herald_leader, Coots refused medical attention and transport to the hospital. It was at least the third time Coots was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Coots’ church was the site of a previous fatal snake bite in August 1995. Melinda Brown, 28, of Parrotsville, Tenn., died after she was bitten on the arm by a large rattlesnake.
After her death, police considered charging Coots with violating Kentucky’s law against handling snakes in church, but a judge said Coots should not be prosecuted for practicing his faith.
Brown’s husband, John Wayne “Punkin” Brown, 34, later died after being bitten by a rattlesnake in church in Alabama.
Kentucky outlawed handing poisonous snakes in religious services in 1940, but serious attempts to enforce the law ended decades ago because of reluctance by authorities to prosecute people for their religious beliefs
I guess he didn’t read the part in Mark that was later found out to be added. Added much much later.
I’ve heard most of those guys are relatively immune, having been bitten and nipped a few thousand times!