'Serpent-Handling' West Virginia Pastor Dies From Snake Bite


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What do you all think of this?

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This is delusion to the extreme. They KNOW snake handling has resulted in death for others, yet they have the "it won't happen to me...I have gawd on my side!"

As an aside, your suggestion, Napoleon, sounds very much like the pastor who recently recommended putting all lesbians in one a large fenced in area and queers and homosexuals in another. He also talked about dropping food now and then, and that eventually they will die out. I'm sincerely hoping you were being facetiousness.
Napoleon was being facetious that's his style.
I took it that way too.

I agree.  I wish there was a universal icon for sarcasm.

Fencing them in wouldn't work, anyway; they breed like rabbits because they don't believe in contraception.  Google "Duggar" ... while they aren't pentecostal snake-handlers, they are fundaMENTAList Baptwits, and their baby mill is "god swill," according to them.

As for the pastor who thinks that putting gays and lesbians in separate concentration camps would do away with homosexuality...he's living in a dream world.  He doesn't seem to realize that ALL GLBT (LGBT?) people have/had heterosexual parents. 

PS: Many LGBT couples have raised ordinary heterosexual children...either their own natural children, or adopted.  It doesn't matter. 

I know one gay couple who a) have been together for almost 40 years, and b) raised twin daughters (born when one of the partners was still in the denial closet and married...he got custody when his wife split.)  Both daughters have been married for more than 20 years, and have grown children of their own....old enough to make my friend a great-grandfather any minute now.  He's lookiing forward to that!


Sk8eycat thanks for your story. I always enjoy your posts.

Right I agree that they don't use contraception, at least the Duggars we know don't.

Indeed Poley was being facetious.  We don't roll like that here on Atheist Nexus...  :)

I love this pic Kelly and yes, they look stupid to us then and now, but I fear that many of the locals here would look at that pic and think they were 'right' then and 'right' now. They're a sick people for which I'm afraid there is no cure.

Thanks Kelly for that picture.

I think they look stupid now too.

Right Paula, that's what I'm referring to and nothing else.


Ok, thanks, you two. I wasn't accusing Napoleon of anything and assumed (wrongly, I'm sure) that perhaps he hadn't heard of the story. I was shocked when I heard the pastor share his idea and the way my mind works at times, things go right over my head o_O

I hope I didn't offend you, Napoleon, and if I did, I apologize.

Yikes! This is only about 30 miles from where I grew up, and my maiden name is Vanover. I wonder if I am related to this guy.

My dad is an ordained minister, but there was definitely no respect for the snake-handling BS, from what I could tell. Even where I grew up they were pretty much considered nut-balls.

Off topic, but are you related to a Vanover from Knoxville (originally) who skated with Holiday On Ice in the late 1960s (he used "Vann" as his professional name)?  He was one of my partners in  chorus numbers, and is still one of my very best friends, even though I live on the "left" coast and he now lives in NC. 

Not as far as I'm aware. Most of the Vanover side was from the very western part of VA or the very eastern part of KY.


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