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Serpent-handling pastor dies from rattlesnake bite
Topic Started: May 30, 2012, 8:35 am (1,000 Views)
M. Hawbaker
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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 turned 44 the previous day, was bitten by a rattlesnake he owned for years. He died late Sunday.
The son of a serpent handler who himself died in 1983 after being bitten, Wolford was trying to keep the practice alive, both in West Virginia, where it is legal, and in neighboring states where it is not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/serpent-handling-pastor-profiled-earlier-in-washington-post-dies-from-rattlesnake-bite/2012/05/29/gJQAJef5zU_story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29
Edited by M. Hawbaker, May 30, 2012, 8:36 am.
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cricket55
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Not something safe to be messing with.
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Rainbo
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Folks, lets wait till we are in heaven to play with venomous snakes and to lie down with lions.

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bopeep1909
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Not a very wise thing to do. :nono
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barb43
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This is a very sad practice. I don't question that these people believe in God, I just think it's sad that they feel a need to express their faith through practices like this that may kill them.
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Duckdogger
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These people believe they are proving God's providential care of His elect by protecting them from the venomous snakes. Is it much different (and I know it is but work with me here) than Believers who smoke hoping that God will protect them from lung diseases?

Quick death compared with slow death.
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