Serpent-handling pastor profiled earlier in Washington Post dies from rattlesnake bite
"Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine, hoped the outdoor service he had planned for Sunday at an isolated state park would be a “homecoming like the old days,” full of folks speaking in tongues, handling snakes and having a “great time.” But it was not the sort of homecoming he foresaw. Instead, Wolford, who had turned 44 the previous day, was bitten by a rattlesnake he had owned for years. He died late Sunday."
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Who said he had to handle venomous snakes? There are plenty of non-venomous ones he could have handled during his sermons.
yeah I have wondered this as well, I believe they handle venomous snakes to display faith that they wont be killed or something... maybe the shock factor to people they try to get to follow them
__________________ “We are not spared dark nights. They are clearly necessary, so that we can learn through suffering, so that we can acquire freedom and maturity and above all else a capacity for sympathy with others.” Pope Benedict XVI
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