What is the religion in the south that dances around with snakes in hand?

Question

Dont bother telling me their nutz, thats a given!!!

Answer 1

Try here:
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Snakes.html

Answer 2

There is a story going round down here that a gospel singing group went to one of the church services you are talking about. They were inspired and the singing went on longer and longer and the crowd got rowdier and rowdier. Then came the bags and the rattle snakes. As the snakes were tossed from one handler to the next the singers were getting nervous. One looked at the other and said "Where's the backdoor? We need to get out of here." The other singer said "they don't have a back door." To which the first conversant said "WONDER WHERE THEY WANT IT?"
:-) Who says Christians don't have a sense of humor. In that same church were pictures of people in coffins. The visitor asked---Who are all these folks? And the pastor said- "folks who lost their faith." I don't play with snakes but I can understand why some folks picked that scripture because when the snake bit Paul it didn't do him any harm. Which caused his shipwrecked shipmates to hold him in a higher regard than they had.

I don't particularly think they are nutz but they could use more reason.......:-)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The religion in the South that practices snake handling is called Pentacostal. It is a protestant religion just as much as Baptist is. I don't believe they dance around but they do practice snake handling and speaking in tongues. The Pentacostal religion actually oridinigated in West Virginia and Virginia, however, not the South. Try loooking it up.

Also, not all Pentacostal Churches practice snake handling, only a select amount and mostly in Mountainous areas like West Virginia, Virginia, etc.

And seeing as how you obviously know nothing about the religion since you don't even know what it's called, you shouldn't automatically assume that they are nuts - you don't even know what they believe in. They are Christians, they just have different ways of worshiping.

When you judge something that you don't understand, you only look ignorant, which you clearly are. You must be one of those hypocrital Christians that preach not to judge others, but you do so yourself.

Answer 5

They are christans but called snake handlers
follow by this.
Snake handlers are essentially fundamentalist Christians who follow a literal interpretation of the Bible. Their key text is the King James Version of Mark 16:17-20, which indicates that Jesus' followers "shall take up serpents" and not suffer harm

Answer 6

They are called "snake handlers" and are mostly found in Appalachian areas, Eastern KY, GA, other cities amoung the mountains.

The reason they handle snakes is taken from the scripture Mark 16:17-18 which states:

"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

Answer 7

It's a particular Christian group.
It chooses to focus on the gospel of Mark 16:17-18 that says:
"These signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak new languages.They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won't hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick and heal them."

This particular group chooses to use these verses to demonstrate the reality of God, and the depth of their own faith.
They're not the first religious group to take one small (crazy) thing from a holy book and make it a central tenet of their faith.

Answer 8

Christianity.

Answer 9

Christianity bases on the last chapter of Mark found only in the King James Version of the bible.

Answer 10

Those would be the Southern Baptists - more specifically, the Charismatics. I know - I grew up in it :-) Tambourine shakers, snake handlers, dancing in the aisles, speaking in tongues and everything!

Answer 11

Pentecostal