When Belief Kills
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 11:57 pm
'Serpent-Handling' West Virginia Pastor Dies From Snake Bite
This to me is evidence that believers will find a way to believe no matter what.
Listen, your religious beliefs are killing your family members. When is it time to say WTF?
OK, the Bible said you could do it, then you died. When is it time to say the Bible is wrong?
And then the snake bit him and he died. I would like to say, "the end", but there will be more snake handling preachers. Believers will find a way to believe, no matter what.
This to me is evidence that believers will find a way to believe no matter what.
ABC News wrote:A "serpent-handling" West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man had apparently watched a snake kill his father years before.
Pentecostal pastor Mark Wolford, 44, hosted an outdoor service at the Panther Wildlife Management Area in West Virginia Sunday, which he touted on his Facebook page prior to the event.
"I am looking for a great time this Sunday," Wolford wrote May 22, according to the Washington Post. "It is going to be a homecoming like the old days. Good 'ole raised in the holler or mountain ridge running, Holy Ghost-filled speaking-in-tongues sign believers."
Robin Vanover, Wolford's sister, told the Washington Post that 30 minutes into the outdoor service, Wolford passed around a poisonous timber rattlesnake, which eventually bit him.
"He laid it on the ground," Vanover said in the interview, "and he sat down next to the snake, and it bit him on the thigh."
Listen, your religious beliefs are killing your family members. When is it time to say WTF?
ABC News wrote:Snake-handlers point to scripture as evidence that God calls them to engage in such a practice to show their faith in him. Mark 16: 17-18 reads, "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."
OK, the Bible said you could do it, then you died. When is it time to say the Bible is wrong?
ABC News wrote:"Anybody can do it that believes it," Wolford said. "Jesus said, 'These signs shall follow them which believe.' This is a sign to show people that God has the power."
And then the snake bit him and he died. I would like to say, "the end", but there will be more snake handling preachers. Believers will find a way to believe, no matter what.