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01-12-2014, 11:57 AM
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snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes back
Here is a link to a news article in today's issue of The Tennessean (Nahville's newspaper) about a snake handling preacher who won't face charges but won't get back the 53 snakes that were confiscated from him.
I thought this might inspire some of you who might want to really demonstrate your faith!
http://www.tennessean.com/viewart/20...-serpents-back
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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01-12-2014, 12:35 PM
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Re: snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes ba
wow, this can only read as a new breach in the relationship between church and state?
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01-12-2014, 04:01 PM
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01-12-2014, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by shazeep
wow, this can only read as a new breach in the relationship between church and state?
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no
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01-12-2014, 06:11 PM
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Re: snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes ba
Really. i thot snake-handlers had always been left alone there, hmm.
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01-12-2014, 06:13 PM
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Re: snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes ba
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Ok, how is it that a guy in SA has heard of him, when i'm from the south and haven't lol
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01-12-2014, 06:16 PM
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Re: snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes ba
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Originally Posted by shazeep
wow, this can only read as a new breach in the relationship between church and state?
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Nope. Just because it's a religious practice doesn't give it an exemption from the law. Why, you might argue that because your religion believes that men should marry many underage women, that you should be free to do so. As the FLDS learned, the good people of Texas were not going to put up with that kind of lawbreaking.
As for the snakes, Hamblin treated them poorly:
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Matt Cameron, a spokesman for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, said its officers acted correctly in raiding Hamblin’s church. Most of the snakes were in ill health when seized, said Cameron. More than half died since the raid, and the rest are being cared for at a Knoxville zoo.
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http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/10...s-the-law.html
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01-12-2014, 06:35 PM
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Re: snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes ba
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Ok, how is it that a guy in SA has heard of him, when i'm from the south and haven't lol
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NatGeo is eternal and worldwide LOL.
NOTE: I'm from Texas.
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01-12-2014, 06:45 PM
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Re: snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes ba
Oh, alrighty then...thought you were in Saudi Arabia!
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01-12-2014, 06:48 PM
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Re: snake handling preacher won't get 53 snakes ba
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Oh, alrighty then...thought you were in Saudi Arabia!
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I was. Now I'm in Texas. In April(ish) or so I'll be back in Saudi Arabia. BUT: I'm a Texas citizen - LOL.
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