Snake-handling preacher killed by rattlesnake

[wa3zrm]

Jamie Coots, who starred in the 'Snake Salvation' reality TV show about Pentecostal preachers, has died after being bitten and refusing treatment
A "snake-handling preacher" who believed that he was following a Biblical command by picking up snakes has died after being bitten.
Jamie Coots, star of an American reality television show Snake Salvation, which profiled Pentecostal snake-handling pastors, died at his home in Kentucky after refusing to go to hospital.
Coots had been bitten nine times before, losing part of his finger in the process.
"It's a victory to God's people that the Lord seen fit to bring me through it," he said the day after a previous bite, in 1998.
Coots was killed by a rattlesnake, dying less than an hour after he ordered doctors away from his home. Followers of his sect frequently refuse mainstream medical care.

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[Andy105]

I guess that The Lord decided that he was a dumbass

[halocog]

Idiot. People like this are the reason no one from Kentucky is ever taken seriously.

[Frosted]

Guess the Lord believes in natural selection.

[DanF]

This story made me think of Bill Maher.

Know why?

Dan

[whalen]

Right! Blame it on the snake! This is a good reason to only worship with gerbils..... And really, the whole bunch strikes me as potential gerbil worshiper's!!!!! The great OZ has spoken......

[whalen]

And I believe it only legal to worship with snakes in West by God Virginia....like God intended!


Ignore the man behind the curtain......

[Thunder_Snus]

These people deserve to die from their own stupidity.
Recent news about parents following weird shit like this that let their young children die from disease because they think the lord will save them should be thrown into mental institutions with instructions to never be let out.

If you believe in Jesus and that he was a really nice cool dude and you should follow the examples he set....thats cool. If you think a divine spirit will save you from a disease that others have died from then you honestly deserve the death you will soon face.