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    They will pick up serpents ...

    Drenched in his own blood, Cody Coots had to be carried out of the Full Gospel Tabernacle church, one of the few in the country which still allows snake-handling.

    Cody's father Jamie, 42, was killed when a rattlesnake bit him in a similar ritual back in 2014 but that does not put him off performing the same death-defying service.

    After he was bitten and collapsed on the ground, Cody asked to be taken to the mountaintop where God would judge whether he should live or die.

    But his friend, also named Cody, instead drove him to the hospital where a doctor said the snake came close to severing his temporal artery which would have killed him.

    Cody's friend said: "Most people bit in the face are dead in five, ten minutes. I mean, his own daddy got bit in the hand and within seven minutes was dead."
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/704014...ched-in-blood/

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    You play with rattlers you gonna git bit.

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    I’m friends with a pastor on Facebook who picks up serpents in church. It totally creeps me out

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    There's serpents in every church some tithe and sing praises the most deadly even preach the 'word'

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    You play with rattlers you gonna git bit.
    When I lived in TX I went to a few "Rattlesnake Roundups", people would get in the ring with hundreds of those things.

    They will pick up serpents ...-rattlesnakes003-jpg

    Crazy!

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    When I lived in TX I went to a few "Rattlesnake Roundups", people would get in the ring with hundreds of those things.

    They will pick up serpents ...-rattlesnakes003-jpg

    Crazy!
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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
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    A few of the more "experienced" handlers had some pretty gruesome looking scars/holes in their hands and arms, apparently the venom just starts killing tissue so they have to remove a lot of stuff.

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    A few of the more "experienced" handlers had some pretty gruesome looking scars/holes in their hands and arms, apparently the venom just starts killing tissue so they have to remove a lot of stuff.
    An evangelist friend of mine was with his wife and friends walking in Kensington Park in southern Michigan which is crawling with snakes. He picked up a very small snake about 4” long and it latched onto his hand. They were laughing about until he went into shock. It was a baby rattler which has crazy concentrated and deadly venom. The ER struggled obtaining enough antivenin and nearly lost him as his pulse dropped to 2 beats per minute. He survived but will never pick up another snake no matter how small and cute it may look.

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    Don't tempt the Lord thy God. God is not obligated to protect you from a poisonous snake if your foolish enough to deliberately pick it up and handle it. You would think coots would have had the brains to see that from his fathers death.
    If you put God First, you have Him at Last.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    An evangelist friend of mine was with his wife and friends walking in Kensington Park in southern Michigan which is crawling with snakes. He picked up a very small snake about 4” long and it latched onto his hand. They were laughing about until he went into shock. It was a baby rattler which has crazy concentrated and deadly venom. The ER struggled obtaining enough antivenin and nearly lost him as his pulse dropped to 2 beats per minute. He survived but will never pick up another snake no matter how small and cute it may look.
    The baby rattlers just dump all their venom, more mature ones regulate the dose, so yeah, the baby snakes are actually more dangerous.

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