Not all religions are the same. Some really are teaching dangerous practices, and this guy should have learned his lesson seeing as how his father died the same way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/serpent-handling-pastor-profiled-earlier-in-washington-post-dies-from-rattlesnake-bite/2012/05/29/gJQAJef5zU_print.html
The priest lacked common sense and not faith. There is a company in Australia that does what the priest does. It’s called reptile shows and kids snake parties Melbourne and they cheat somewhat by using surgically devenomized snakes so that when the reptile bites, nothing happens. I posted the link here so that you can view the front page and see the images of kids holding the world’s deadliest snakes in the shopping malls image to get an idea of what I mean. They’ve done over 10,000 trouble free shows, with a few bites thrown in, but due to the snakes lacking venom, no incidents as such.
I wonder though, just thinking out loud. Wouldn’t you be lacking faith by taking the precaution? Not by us but by a believing Pentecostal.
I really don’t believe though you can bring proofs from what you guys do. Aussies are crazy! Or maybe I’m just a wussy American. Probably more the case, although I guess we’d see what I would do if I was down under. Hmmmm…