Do you think our unsual fear of snakes has to do with the way Bible?

Question

metaphorically singling it out as "evil"?

Answer 1

No,it's been tested out using babies and it isn't acquired,it's innate. Earler tests found otherwise because they only used babies up to six months,who didn't mind the snakes at all. But it turned out that's just because they are too young to register anomalies. Most creatures - even most insects - walk on legs,so the movement of a snake is highly anomalous. A nine month old is still too young to know anything about religion but by then they do recognize and register fear or at least apprehension when confronting anything anomalous. Also,people often react the same way to worms and they aren't mentioned in the Bible,at least not as evil. The idea that a person instinctively recoils,at least initially,at the sight of a snake is due to exposure to Biblical teachings is just moldy atheist folklore. Besides,atheist kids also react that way. We all do,if the snake's presence catches you by surprize. It's just the way they move.

Answer 2

I used to be afraid of snakes when I lived out in the country where it was not unusual to see rattlesnakes. Now that I live in the suburbs (and I am educated about what to do if I did see a poisonous snake) I'm not afraid of them at all. In fact, I kept a red tail boa for 2 years. Thankyou, Petco and Steve Irwin, for revolutionizing mainstream views of otherwise feared and hated animals like tarantulas.
I realize, though, that this could just be a pagan odditiy as in my research of British pagan gods I have found that snakes were widely revered and symbolized fertility for some reason. ^~

Answer 3

Being an Agnostic, I could care less what it says in the bible. Some snakes are very poisoness and unless you want to suffer a great deal of pain and possibly death, you sould retain a healthy respect and distance from them.

Answer 4

Whose unusual fear of snakes? I don't really have a problem with them, unless they're poisonous and on my property. I don't see them as "evil". They're just another life form among many, and as living beings, are not to be harmed or abused.

Answer 5

Have you ever encountered a snake in the wild?

I'm not talking about your garter snakes, I mean something deadly like a cobra, a habu or a cottonmouth.

Not something you want to play with.

Answer 6

So if Satan had come in the form of a duck then nobody would go to the parks and feed them??? No. Snakes were made to slither,not play "roll over". Keep 'em far from me!

Answer 7

I think the huge fangs and weirdness has more to do with it. But if a Snake gives you a bad look it would be freaky.

God Bless,
Elisha

Answer 8

I have no fear of snakes - usual or unusual...(or unsual - whatever that is)

Answer 9

Our fear of snakes is probably innate, and a result of evolution.

Answer 10

I think the fact that many snakes venom can kill people is what caused primitive men to think snakes were "the devil".