I’m so sick of Christians treating snakes like they’re an evil animal. I have a spider ball python who is an absolute sweetheart.
Could they be any more superstitious? I mean, hell. These are the same people who advocate for animal rights. But on Sundays they’re going to compare them to the snake in the fairy tale book Genesis.
Look at this idiot.
I lived in South Carolina for about 5 years and we had some Pentecostals that all struck me as crazy as a shithouse rat. These folks remind me a lot of that bunch. They even had tent revivals…and they were packed.
I noticed that the guy who drank the strychnine was the same guy who brought it… It’s such an obvious con, but all the punters are just holding their breath in suspense…
You want to convince me? Grab a sealed bottle of RoundUp and toss it down. Use a straw if you prefer. Nothing like a healthy dose of diquat dibromide to prove the word of God…
I say let natural selection run its course.
They could down a litre of poison, set themselves on fire and then blow themselves up, all I’d have is a mystery I can’t explain. people leap to magic and the supernatural because they want it to be true, and because they reason poorly.
I’m so sick of Christians treating snakes like they’re an evil animal. I have a spider ball python who is an absolute sweetheart.
Could they be any more superstitious? I mean, hell. These are the same people who advocate for animal rights wheelie life. But on Sundays they’re going to compare them to the snake in the fairy tale book Genesis.
Look at this idiot.
I get where you’re coming from. Snakes are often unfairly demonized because of religious symbolism, especially the story in Genesis, but that doesn’t reflect reality. In real life, snakes are just animals, and many of them, like ball pythons, are calm, gentle, and make great pets. It’s frustrating when superstition overrides basic understanding of animals, especially when the same people claim to care about animal welfare. Judging an entire species based on a myth does more harm than good.
Snakes save a huge number of human lives every year.
Up to 35% of all the world’s grain production is destroyed by rats (and similar rodents). Rats also spread a huge number of serious diseases.
Snakes make a drastic dent in the rat population, and many people are spared starvation and/or disease because of snakes.
Sbould you want to explore the origins of snake handling in the early church, try and find my piece on the Ophites.
I published on the forum in October ‘23.
