[1000 silverlings]

Well let me tell you, I wonder that you are a Baptist. Number one, no Baptist churches handle rattlesnakes. Pentecostal churches that believe in signs, handle rattlesnakes, and then, not mainstream Pentecostals, but small independent churches.

[Mr Rogers]

There are easily over 50,000 Baptist churches, all independent. I’d have to research it, but I’m confident that some of them have handled snakes.

But if you prefer, I once attended an Independent Bible Baptist church that made it clear the KJV IS the word of God, and no other English translation could be tolerated.

I wouldn’t want Catholics to attack me for believing that the KJV is the only true Word of God. I’ve met Baptists who thought salvation was on the merit system - did your merits outweigh your demerits. Totally false in Baptist teaching, but they believed it.

Would you want to be judged by the actions of Westboro Baptist Church? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church) I sure wouldn’t!

You can doubt that I’m a Baptist if you wish, but I’m pretty mainstream as a Baptist in the pew. There is nothing odd about a Baptist believing that Jesus came to save the world, that whosoever believes is saved, etc.