As I understand it, Pentecostals believe Jesus Christ is inside them handling the serpents, using their hands and brains. Everything I’ve heard about Jesus, though, makes me think that he had better things to do than to play with snakes. Some of the temptation of this religious practice must be the ‘high’ the ‘anointed’ get from drinking rat poison, plus their addiction to endorphins. Let’s face it, folks, snake handlers have got to be flooded with the highest adrenalin counts imaginable.
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