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A "serpent-handling" West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man had apparently watched a snake kill his father years before.
Pentecostal pastor Mark Wolford, 44, hosted an outdoor service at the Panther Wildlife Management Area in West Virginia Sunday, which he touted on his Facebook page prior to the event.
"I am looking for a great time this Sunday," Wolford wrote May 22, according to the Washington Post. "It is going to be a homecoming like the old days. Good 'ole raised in the holler or mountain ridge running, Holy Ghost-filled speaking-in-tongues sign believers."
Robin Vanover, Wolford's sister, told the Washington Post that 30 minutes into the outdoor service, Wolford passed around a poisonous timber rattlesnake, which eventually bit him.
More at: http://news.yahoo.com/serpent-handling-west-virginia-pastor-dies-snake-bite-173406645--abc-news-topstories.html
Religion can kill you.
man4allcats
(4,026 posts)If you fuck with them, they will bite you.
2on2u
(1,843 posts)pray hard enough. I wonder how many others he coerced into handling satan.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Of course he always had those signs...
Apparently he didn't see this coming.
Double fail.
Maybe he spoke with forked tongue.
Or, maybe that was just the rattlesnake.