So apparentely I'm going to be going to a snake-handling church...

[ButterflyBlood]

In two weeks apparently. I was at a bar with the 29-year old pastor and some other guys and he's talking about obtaining a snake for his sermon in two weeks, though I don't know exactly what for. And another guy announced he knows someone who can provide him with a non-poisonous one that he can hold while he speaks.

So yeah non-poisonous kind of makes it a little different but I still have to laugh at the novelty value. When the waitress brought us more drinks I joked to her "Hey you know what's funny about how much he drinks? He's one of those snake-handling pastors!" I'm not sure if she believed me. But he did insist that our expert photographer who was present bring her great camera and get pics, so soon we'll have the quite odd church Facebook page with some hipster looking guy carrying a snake instead of typical church-y stuff.

[BiggJawn]

1. Don't drink any yellowish-green stuff while you're there.

Snake handlers are big on drinking antifreeze, and that stuff'll clog your kidneys.

[ButterflyBlood]

3. Ha, I should propose they get some odd colored juice for communion that week...

That could be fun.

[nolabear]

2. Non poisonous? Seriously?

PPPPffftttt... Don't let him anywhere near the Appalachians.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. You have to have a venomous snake at your church service

or God will laugh at you. Seriously, what's the point of snake-handling if the handlee is a cute little garter snake who can't do a damn thing to you except inflict some very tiny puncture wounds in your thumb?

God tells me I shall take up serpents and not get tiny puncture wounds in my thumb?

Lame.

If you haven't got a king cobra or a fer-de-lance or an Australian sea snake, or at least some kind of rattlesnake, God will think you're silly.