(July 29, 2015 at 11:43 am)drfuzzy Wrote:(July 29, 2015 at 11:36 am)abaris Wrote: Another devout idiot dead because he handled snakes. Funnily enough I read about it on the webpage of our public tv network, which pointed me to the Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/...ite-church
Yep. I got dragged to a lot of "snake handling" speaking in tongues services as a child. After all, Mark 16:18 says: "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them." And these folks say that every word in the Bible is literally true.
Now, why don't they have arsenic-drinking services, then?
You should have suggested the poison to them, and told them that they did not have the faith that they pretended to have. Otherwise, they would do it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
