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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 17, 2014 at 8:22 am
(February 17, 2014 at 2:28 am)Esquilax Wrote: Seems like they have a ready made test for who is and isn't godly, then. Kind of funny they haven't just had everyone line up for a snakebite, in that case. You know, put their money where their mouths are.
They may be stupid, but they ain't dumb.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 17, 2014 at 8:24 am
(February 16, 2014 at 6:45 pm)Tonus Wrote: He's in a better place now.
Than Kentucky?
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 17, 2014 at 10:04 am
And the Darwin Award goes to...
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 17, 2014 at 10:12 am
(February 17, 2014 at 2:07 am)Esquilax Wrote: You would think, given that the premise here is that those who die of snakebites are not anointed and chosen by god, that this death would show that the preachers at this specific church are not speaking for god, and people would stop listening.
The fact that the place still exists after the first one shows something very clearly: a lot of christians only believe in god up to the point where it might require they change something.
There are many things you would expect to break christianity in half, but it doesn't. They just blame the individual, or splinter off into another group.
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 17, 2014 at 11:06 am
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(February 17, 2014 at 12:27 am)popeyespappy Wrote: This is the second snake bite death at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name church that I am aware of. Melinda Brown the wife of another snake handling preacher Punkin Brown received a fatal bite during a service at this church in 1995. Punkin died 3 years later after being bitten at the Rock House Holiness Church near Scottsboro, Alabama. Freedom of religion be damned. These people need to be locked in rubber room for their own good. Hopefully before they breed. Punkin and Melinda had 5 under age children when he died. Last I heard the maternal grandparents were fighting to keep the kids out of the custody of the paternal grandparents who run another snake charming church the Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name in South Carolina.
When fundamentalists are extirpating themselves in the name of Jesus and salvation, always far it should be for you to presume any alternative fate ought to be good for them.
(February 17, 2014 at 8:24 am)MitchBenn Wrote: (February 16, 2014 at 6:45 pm)Tonus Wrote: He's in a better place now.
Than Kentucky?
Well, he is literally in Kentucky now, as oppose to merely being sort of on Kentucky.
(February 17, 2014 at 3:38 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Perhaps it was a possessed snake...
Once again demonic possession proved stronger than the Holy Spirit.
(February 17, 2014 at 12:58 am)popeyespappy Wrote: Im more concerned for the kids than the adults, Min. I used to work with a few of the Rock House Holiness crazies a few years back. Those people shouldn't be allowed to raise children.
Perhaps tests of faith via legless reptile ought to start young so all the faithful can croak before they can pollute the gene pool.
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 18, 2014 at 1:18 am
You know it occurred to me that it would have been real good for ratings if the poor bastard dumb fucker got himself killed on camera.
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 18, 2014 at 1:45 pm
(February 18, 2014 at 1:18 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You know it occurred to me that it would have been real good for ratings if the poor bastard dumb fucker got himself killed on camera.
Especially when he, huh, gives up the ghost, to chorus of hallelujah.
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 18, 2014 at 1:54 pm
The irony is, that the entire snake handling passage in Mark is not even original the the Gospel.
It was a 2nd century addition.
This guy died for an interpolation because some scribe half a century later did not like the abrupt ending of Mark. The writing style is not even the same.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 18, 2014 at 1:58 pm
(February 18, 2014 at 1:54 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: The irony is, that the entire snake handling passage in Mark is not even original the the Gospel.
It was a 2nd century addition.
This guy died for an interpolation because some scribe half a century later did not like the abrupt ending of Mark. The writing style is not even the same.
I heard about that. Mark just ends with someone telling the women at the tomb that Jesus isn't there, and they didn't bother to talk to anyone about it. End book.
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
February 18, 2014 at 2:03 pm
Well as its also the only place in Mark that non-Jews are mentioned I guess they kinda need to rely on it. Incorporating Mark into the NT without that last bit would be tantamount to admitting Jesus only came for the Jews.
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