https://abcnews.go.com/US/serpent-h...ies-snake-bite/story?id=16459455#.T8vvP9VYu5I
What a ****ing idiot.
What a ****ing idiot.
Here's a very interesting read about similar believers. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this strand of belief: https://www.amazon.com/Salvation-Sa...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338786106&sr=1-2
You folks have got this all wrong.
Not dying when bitten by poisonous snakes is a promise given only to the TRUE believers/followers of Christ. Don't be deceived. If anyone is bitten by a snake and dies, he wasn't a true believer, that's all.
Ambrose Bierce > Quotes > Quotable Quote
“Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
Sometimes it's easy to believe that US is all New York, Florida, and the West Coast. There are parts of the South(though this business actually took place in WVA) that may as well be in the 19th century.
I'm going to Montana in a few days, and it'll be my second time there. That place is scary with a capital "s". I have never seen that many churches, especially that many churches of fundamentalist denominations. They have billboards on the side of the road talking fire and brimstone. One of them actually said "Repent, sinners!" And I live in Canada's most conservative and social ***-backward province, and I'm utterly unaccustomed to anything like this.
I mean, here's the church down the street from my parents' house. It belongs to the biggest protestant denomination in Canada. Check the flag. And yes, it does mean what you think.
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It really is not that scary Jim. I am sure that you will find most people are perfectly friendly.
The billboards don't seem that friendly. Especially since my people apparently killed Jesus.
I guess it's just a cultural difference. In Canada, it's considered decidedly impolite to inquire about religious beliefs of people who aren't close friends. It is downright hateful to suggest that someone else will go to hell because they don't believe in the same thing as you. We also have much tougher hate speech laws, as for example KKK delegations that come down from south of 49 to visit their brethren here find out. While putting up a sign saying "If you don't believe in Jesus, you'll go to hell" may not necessarily fall afoul of our hate speech laws, a community association would likely ask a church here to remove it.
It just shocks me the way things work in the US sometimes. The rhetoric of some US politicians on faith and immigration would actually be criminal up here.
The billboards don't seem that friendly. Especially since my people apparently killed Jesus.
I guess it's just a cultural difference. In Canada, it's considered decidedly impolite to inquire about religious beliefs of people who aren't close friends. It is downright hateful to suggest that someone else will go to hell because they don't believe in the same thing as you. We also have much tougher hate speech laws, as for example KKK delegations that come down from south of 49 to visit their brethren here find out. While putting up a sign saying "If you don't believe in Jesus, you'll go to hell" may not necessarily fall afoul of our hate speech laws, a community association would likely ask a church here to remove it.
It just shocks me the way things work in the US sometimes. The rhetoric of some US politicians on faith and immigration would actually be criminal up here.
I mean, here's the church down the street from my parents' house. It belongs to the biggest protestant denomination in Canada. Check the flag. And yes, it does mean what you think.
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That's nice, but this isn't Canada. 46% of the US population don't even believe in evolution. And I mean AT ALL. Not the half assed "I believe evolution was guided by god" stance. I'm not surprised one bit by the guy's level of idiocy.
I'd love to see the state-by-state breakdown of belief in evolution. I've got a feeling that if the Confederacy had successfully separated, the USA would be indistinguishable from Canada today. Except that you wouldn't speak a lick of French.
Not necessarily true as several western states (Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Wyoming...) would be in The USA and not the confederacy. They would still be very conservative and religious.
I just figured ya'll would be overwhelmed by various snowbirds from the North.