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Snake handler dies at 44
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
May 31, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Quote:Perhaps his faith wasn't strong enough


Maybe the snake's was stronger?
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
May 31, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Perhaps god hates people who believes in him and took the opportunity to kill one for sport?
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
May 31, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Give that man a Darwin award.
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
June 1, 2012 at 6:46 am
(May 31, 2012 at 5:28 pm)Godschild Wrote: People who handle poisonous snakes and drink poison do not understand their scriptures and test God.

No, actually I think it's more accurately put that people who handle poisonous snakes and drink poison do not understand that their body has little to no resistance to venom or poison and have obviously abandoned common sense.

Poisonous snakes and poison is very bad for you, so don't play around with it. Duh!

Cinjin, you got any Darwin award medals? Or certificates? Big Grin
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Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
June 1, 2012 at 7:08 am
(May 31, 2012 at 2:45 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Snake handler dies at 44

Quote:A Mercer County man who is believed to be the pastor in a faith that includes the handling of poisonous snakes as part of some religious services, was pronounced dead Monday morning at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.

Perhaps his faith wasn't strong enough? Thinking

No, he had simply fulfilled god's purpose for his life and was rewarded with a first class ticket to heaven, duh.
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
June 1, 2012 at 7:51 am
(June 1, 2012 at 7:08 am)Mosrhun Wrote: No, he had simply fulfilled god's purpose for his life and was rewarded with a first class ticket to heaven, duh.
That sucks for him. He died as he lived, being a puppet to an almighty noob. Personally I'd bin mine and get a ticket to Finland, Norway, or Trinidad, or Tobago, maybe the beaches at Pulau Perhentian Kecil?

There are so many places I'd rather go and see, than that holey shit hole. ^^
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
June 5, 2012 at 4:18 am
Quote:The LORD said not to test Him. Bad things can happen.



Indeed, but unfortunately not often enough to the richly deserving. Tiger
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
June 5, 2012 at 10:50 am
More than a little ironic if he ends up winning a Darwin award for this.
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
June 5, 2012 at 10:59 am
What is particularly amusing about idiots who die this way is that they are falling for a line in their silly-assed gospels which was added centuries later to "Mark" by some unknown scribe who was probably under order to make the fucking thing conform to what the church wanted in the 5th (or later) century.

None of them are any loss to the gene pool.
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RE: Snake handler dies at 44
June 5, 2012 at 11:01 am
(June 5, 2012 at 10:50 am)whateverist Wrote: More than a little ironic if he ends up winning a Darwin award for this.

Perhaps the ultimate consolation prize.

Look, you won a prize for being too stupid to live to enjoy it.
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