(June 10, 2012 at 1:25 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's all to do with signs of True Believers™ from (I believe) Mark 16, "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."
We can see how well that works out...
The problem with Mark 16 9-20 is that it was tacked on centuries later because the church was embarrassed that "Mark" did not have a proper orthodox ending to his fairy tale. So they wrote him one. All but the stupidest fundies admit this and the stupidest fundies are the ones who play with fucking snakes.
Serves them right.