Dear Jamie Coots,

[BoyNextDoor]

True believers can die of a snake bite.


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(CNN) -- A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality show about snake-handling in church has died -- of a snakebite.
Jamie Coots died Saturday evening after refusing to be treated, Middleborough police said.
On "Snake Salvation," the ardent Pentecostal believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural South.

 

[Wrong Element]

In his defense, with a name like Jamie Coots, he really had no choice but to become a snake handler. It was either that or NASCAR.

 

[phrodeau]

This story needs to make headlines across the country, so that all the other "true believers" will think twice about their boneheaded scriptures.

 

[pink]

In his defense, with a name like Jamie Coots, he really had no choice but to become a snake handler. It was either that or NASCAR.

Hey now, you leave my Nascar out of this.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

This story needs to make headlines across the country, so that all the other "true believers" will think twice about their boneheaded scriptures.

That's no excuse. Simon Peter walked on water for a few blocks, too, but I don't see anyone trying that.

 

[dolf]

This story needs to make headlines across the country, so that all the other "true believers" will think twice about their boneheaded scriptures.

they'll just assume he lost faith or sinned, surely?

 

[BoyNextDoor]

He could have won the Darwin Award, but he already procreated.

Meet "Little Cody" Coots

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[patient1]

This story needs to make headlines across the country, so that all the other "true believers" will think twice about their boneheaded scriptures.

I see it as more selective reading. I think they overlooked what Jesus Himself said" Don't put The Lord, thy God, to foolish tests."