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To: Kid Rock who wrote (30699)	2/12/1999 5:42:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

An interesting question there for the Bobs among us: if a parent's religion requires its members to handle poisonous snakes, does the state have the right to relieve those parents of custody of their children if the parents insist on raising the kiddies in their own religious tradition? What if they want the kids to play with the snakes too? I think they should pull the lot of them in on cruelty-to-animals charges and lock them up for a bit. The snakes do not like to be handled. Obviously. <edit> On second thought, I could arrange a shipment of cobras, which might solve the problem.

To: Kid Rock who wrote (30699)	2/12/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Respond to of 108807

Excerpt from the article you posted a link to: <<The book of Mark in the Bible's New Testament calls serpent handling one of the "signs" that true believers must follow.>> This is incorrect. The bible does not say to go out and handle snakes to prove your faith. It says if any deadly serpent bites you, if you are a true believer you will not be harmed. Paul was bitten and suffered no harm, but accidentally when he was gathering firewood. To deliberately get bitten is forcing a test on the Lord which is forbidden. I have heard that the snakes they use are "milked" before the service anyhow. I guess they don't get all the venom out sometimes. OOPS!

To: Kid Rock who wrote (30699)	2/12/1999 10:05:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

This is weird, Tom, not weird at all. Hill-billy pentacostals do this all the time, and drink poison -- acids and the like. The weird thing is, like Christian Scientists, they are still around. I knew a Ph.D. in psychology at UNC who studied the movement and ended up being converted to it. Stockholm effect? Patty Hearstomania? Who can say?