Woman fatally bitten by snake in church
Wed Nov 8, 12:54 AM ET
LONDON, Ky. - A woman who was bitten by a snake at a church that neighbors say practices serpent handling died of her wounds hours later, a newspaper reported.
Linda Long, 48, was bitten Sunday at East London Holiness Church, where neighbors said the reptiles are handled as part of religious services, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Tuesday.
Long died at University of Kentucky Medical Center about four hours after being bitten, authorities told the newspaper.
"She said she was bitten by a snake at her church," said Lt. Ed Sizemore of the Laurel County Sheriff's Office.
Handling reptiles as part of religious services is illegal in Kentucky. Snake handling is a misdemeanor and punishable by a $50 to $100 fine.
Police said they had not received any reports of snake handling at the church.
Snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
Church officials could not be reached for comment.
Any sect that takes ONE LINE from the bible and makes it the entire focus of their faith are a bunch of loonies. Like the Latter Rain nutbars. "Handling reptiles as part of religious services is illegal in Kentucky"So sad that they actually had to make a law like this.
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I took a sociology of religion class and we students were forced to watch footages on video like that where religious ppl were handling snakes, speaking in tongue, dancing/singing like they are possessed etc It was weird...
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I saw this TLC program about some dipshit southern redneck who went around literally killing snakes because the bible told him to. The snake literally was satan to this bumblefuck.
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So sad that they actually had to make a law like this.
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