Are you referring to the pastor who died after being bitten by a snake he was handling while preaching? His son followed his example and died as well.
edition.cnn.com/2014/02/16/us/snake-salvation-pastor-bite/
snippets → Father
“Jamie Coots died Saturday evening after refusing to be treated, Middlesboro police said.”
“On “
Snake Salvation,” the ardent Pentecostal believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural South.”
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In February 2013, Coots was given one year of probation for crossing into Tennessee with venomous snakes. He was previously arrested in 2008 for keeping 74 snakes in his home, according to National Geographic. Tennessee banned snake handling in 1947 after five people were bitten in churches over two years’ time, the channel says on the show site.”
nydailynews.com/news/national/snake-handler-son-takes-rattler-killed-dad-article-1.1701252
snippets → Son
“The 21-year-old pastor, who has assumed leadership of Middlesboro’s Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, can be seen in a video praying and convulsing as the deadly serpent writhes in his arms.”
“After the snakes were handled, Cody and his team also held a flaming torch to their bare hands.”
“Cody has a
wife and child of his own but refuses to give up the life-threatening practices he believes are sanctioned by the Bible.”
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Even if a bite appears to be deadly, Cody has said that he’ll stay true to his dad’s example and refuse medical treatment.”
“When an ambulance arrived at the church at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, medical workers were told Coots had gone home, the Middlesboro Police Department said in a statement. Contacted at his house, Coots refused to be treated by doctors.”
“Emergency workers left about 9:10 p.m. that night. When they returned about an hour later, the preacher was
dead.”
They were crazy. We can’t expect our angels to shield us from dangers if we don’t even *try *to protect ourselves. This father and son dashed their feet against stones.
