pastor who believed Xtians must handle snakes as a sign of faith dies....

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pastor who believed Xtians must handle snakes as a sign of faith dies....
OP - May 31, 2012, 10:53 AM

.....yeah you guessed it, of a rattlesnake bite

A pastor who believed Christians must handle rattlesnakes as a sign of their faith has died – after suffering a rattlesnake bite at an outdoor service in Bluefield, West Virginia.

Mack Wolford, who was 44, based his belief on Mark 16:17-18, which says:
“And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Wolford was well-known in his region of the US on account of his snake-handling, an archaic Pentecostal practice that he continued to enthusiastically promote, despite watching his own father die from a rattlesnake bite when he was just 15.

Appealing for followers to join him at what would be his final service last Sunday, Wolford promised an inspiring day out in the West Virginia countryside. “I am looking for a great time this Sunday,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “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. Praise the Lord and pass the rattlesnakes, brother.”

http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2012/05/snake-handling-pentecostal-pastor-dies.html

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Reply #1 - May 31, 2012, 11:14 AM

what are the chances? lol..

you know, my mom has this very same idea too.. that snakes are sent to you by Allah on purpose ..... so basicly there are no snake bite accidents...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
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Reply #2 - May 31, 2012, 11:18 AM

What an idiot! Serves him right.

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Reply #3 - May 31, 2012, 11:46 AM

despite watching his own father die from a rattlesnake bite when he was just 15.

really?.. you'd think he would learn from that..

i can just hear the explainations...
*he must have had a moment of doubt, and the snake sensed it*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
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Reply #4 - May 31, 2012, 11:52 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80YUaM8Hq50

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Reply #5 - May 31, 2012, 11:56 AM

maybe his father was a dick and irreligious and his fathers death meant that god saved him from a douchebag by the snake

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Reply #6 - May 31, 2012, 12:03 PM

Quote from: Stardust on May 31, 2012, 11:56 AM
maybe his father was a dick and irreligious and his fathers death meant that god saved him from a douchebag by the snake

interesting point.. "maybe his father was a dick and irreligious" ...

Any ways, once a person goes in to that mental masturbation, he/she can do anything without worrying about his/her life or lives of others. Such people can jump of the cliff, fall in front of running train, drive planes in to building, Kill people with suicide bombings.. slit throats.. and get bitten by snakes.. etc..etc.. JUST FOR NOTHING..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBvq2qTGqk

well that is life, A wasted life..

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Ha! watch that little girl.. she must have been trained

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Reply #7 - May 31, 2012, 03:12 PM

this wasn't a test of faith... it was a test of intelligence.. (i did an os right there.. !)

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Reply #8 - May 31, 2012, 05:14 PM

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/714066166/with-signs-following

well that is the video link to Mack Wolford, "Oh God rattle snake "

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Reply #9 - May 31, 2012, 08:45 PM

One less stupid person in this world.
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Reply #10 - May 31, 2012, 09:00 PM

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Reply #11 - May 31, 2012, 09:40 PM

Quote from: billy on May 31, 2012, 10:53 AM
Mack Wolford, who was 44, based his belief on Mark 16:17-18, which says:
?And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.?

So the next question is will his followers now write him off as a closet unbeliever?

Also, if these clowns really believe in the Bible, why aren't they drinking pints of potassium cyanide solution?

"and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them" God says so. Go for it.

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