Q: What Do You Need to Do When a W Va Pentecostal Preacher is Killed by a Rattlesnake Bite?..... A: Get More Rattlesnakes!

Snake-handling preacher dies from rattlesnake bite in West Virginia

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Pastor Mack Wolford handles a timber rattlesnake during a service at the Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, W.Va., on Sept. 3.

By Gil Aegerter, msnbc.com

West Virginia preacher Mark Randall "Mack" Wolford, who believed Christians should handle snakes to test their faith, died after a rattlesnake bit him over the weekend.

Wolford was bitten on the thigh about 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, but he didn't come to the hospital until 10:30 p.m., a nursing supervisor at Bluefield Regional Medical Center  told the Charleston Daily Mail. The incident occurred during an outdoor service at Panther State Forest, about 80 miles west of Bluefield in southern West Virginia, the paper said.

Wolford had turned 44 on Saturday. He had seen his father die of a snakebite when he was teenager, the Daily Mail reported.

The Washington Post Magazine had profiled Wolford in a story in November about the snake-handling faith. The Post said adherents cite Mark 16:17-18: “And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Snake-handling is legal in West Virginia, and Wolford was trying to keep it alive there and in neighboring states where it is not, the Post reported.

The Daily Mail reported that Wolford was bitten Sunday by a yellow timber rattlesnake -- named Sheba -- that he had often handled.

Wolford's sister told the Post that during the service he passed the snake to another church member and his mother, then laid it on the ground. "He sat down next to the snake, and it bit him on the thigh," the sister said, according to the Post.

The Post said Wolford was taken to a relative's house in Bluefield to recover, as he had from previous bites, but his condition worsened.

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Q: What's Dumber than A Southern Baptist Preacher? A: His Congregation

Since this isn't Christian, American or scientifically rational, it can only be attributed to dumb-ass 'billy hatred.

 North Carolina Anti-Gay Pastor In 1978: Gays Used To Be ‘Hung, Bless God, From A White Oak Tree’

By Annie-Rose Strasser on May 22, 2012 at 4:55 pm

Worley

The anti-gay North Carolina pastor Charles Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church has been facing backlash over his recent sermon in which he said the US should pen in “all the lesbians and queers” with an electrified fence and wait for them to “die out.”
But it turns out Worley has been saying offensive things about gay people for decades.
Jeremy Hooper dug up this bit of hate from Worley in 1978, in which Worley says that “40 years ago” gay people would have been hung “from a white oak tree”:

WORLEY: I’m God’s preacher. I just believe the book. Living in a day when, you know what, it saddens my heart to think that homosexuals can go around, bless God, and get the applause of a lot of people. Lesbians and all the rest of it? Bless God, forty years ago they’d have hung ‘em, bless God, from a white oak tree, wouldn’t they? Amen.

Listen to it here.

Update:
 Today David Pakman interviewed a lesbian who has a family member who belongs to Worley’s congregation and who has personally attended Pastor Worley’s church. She told him that she was “not surprised” by Worley’s comments, adding that there were “quite a few ‘Amens’ from the congregation”:

 

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Too Bad Her Name Wasn't Zimmerman

Marissa Alexander Gets 20 Year Sentence for ‘Standing Her Ground’

Marissa Alexander

*(Via Jacksonville.com) – As expected, a judge sentenced Marissa Alexander to a mandatory term of 20 years in prison this morning despite her claim that she was standing her ground when she fired what she has called a warning shot in the presence of an abusive husband and his two children.
Alexander was convicted in March of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The jury found that she had indeed discharged the firearm in the incident, resulting in her mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years due to Florida’s “10-20-Life” statutes.
In a courtroom protest, a group of young (people) stood and sang “We who believe in justice will not rest!”
Circuit Judge James Daniel ordered the group out of the courtroom and out of the building entirely.
Afterward U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown also challenged State Attorney Angela Corey at the courthouse saying the charges were overboard and labeled the case “institutional racism.” She said she has the best domestic violence attorney looking into and as well as other prejudicial outcomes against blacks. This is the beginning, not the end, she said.
Corey was firm in the punishment, noting Alexander’s gunshot easily could have ricocheted and hit the children or husband.
Alexander, 31, has claimed that she was in fear of her life from her husband, 36-year-old Rico Gray, when she went to the garage of their home and armed herself during an August 2010 dispute that had already gotten physical.

Read/learn more at Jacksonville.com.

Taking Christ Out of Christian the 'Billy Way

This moron claims to be speaking for God. I don't need to judge him. Jesus already addressed the situation.

Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Mat 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Mat 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

North Carolina State Motto: Esse quam videri

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so
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