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Is that awe on his face or "awe shit, I'm gonna fuckin' die" on his face.

You know what kind gentle and very good looking readers, it is not easy to write on this super hi level everyday, day in and day out. I mean c'mon, I halfta be totally funny, make up words-n-spellings, used fucked up sentence structure and employ all my cliche catch phrases everytime I write a post. That's a lot. Oh yea, I stick information and facts-n-shit in every post. Soooooo, I don't feel totally brilliant today (just partially) and that is why I'm a gonna post a video.




I could not find a way to to embed  the video that made me bat shit crazy yesterday which was about the next generation of snake handling Christians. I couldn't find it on the you tubes, but check out this link to RNS and be amazed at the absolute craziness of the next generation of super devout snake handlers. I promise you will be in awe.

The video is really entertaining. There is music, there is a cool, looks like a 57' telecaster, dancing, people handling one snake, many snakes, passing snakes-no one gets bit tho, and that good ol' cherry pickin' from the bible that I always talk about. These are also the Christians that speak in tongues (1) but unfortunately there is no fakey fake speaking in tongues in the vid.



So this particular splinter cell of the Jesus Cult is, like, only 50 years old. They picked select passages from the bible (Mark 16-17, 16-18) to legitimize their super crazy practice of showing faith thru snake handling. The claim is that it brings them closer to God, that this is the closest thing to heaven on earth, only the most true and devout can do this and if you get bit, then God will decide if you live or die (fo sho you cannot get, you know, medicine). Or it could be what secular people call...sometimes you die from a snake bite and sometimes not. No God involved. It's called probability. Anyhoo...

Everything that believers can do, secular people can do also. I don't doubt that there is some sort of transcendent experience happening, an experience that some people would call spiritual when taking part of this particular church service. Fo sho that IS happening. If anyone were to sing and dance and say positive things over and over again, in an environment where people love and support you, the same thingy will happen to all people. Which is...

The Dixon Ticonderoga has always been my favorite pencil. Yes, I have a favorite pencil.

The awesome evolved human brain will tell the sort of awesome human body to release chemicals that can make us feel euphoric, sorta high and definitely good. Dancing and listening to music that inspires you and feels good-to everyone (we can't let them hijack music and dancing y'all) is universal. There is no need to pick up a freekin' snake to achieve that.

I've had a notion (fantasy) in my head for years that I'm debating W.L. Craig (that would never happen, this is my atheist fantasy) and I say something like "If you believe in this pencil (I pull a pencil outta my pocket) the way that you believe in God, what will happen. If you pray to this pencil (positive thinking) and make the same efforts in the material and physical world that we live in...what will happen?

My conclusion is that the same thing(s) will happen, whatever the result. The probability that something will occur whether you pray to God, handle snakes, whether God even exists, whether the pencil is the one true God, the chance of an event happening, any event, the result whether it is positive or negative will always be the same. No snakes needed.

This is W.L. Craig cowering to me in debate (in my mind). No offense to the ladies.

I guess I ended up writing after all. I dunno if I made sense, but just like yesterday....chalk it up to experience and publish baby. Just publish. Team Atheist, thanks for entertaining my thoughts.

(1) So thoroughly debunked again and again that I just halfta say that people that do this are really stupid. People that believe this is divine and special are totally stupid. If you know that it's fake but do it for enjoyment, that is one thing. But if you think that you are really speaking some kinda heavenly language...fuck-en-aye man...you are stupid.

* Speaking in tongues is called glossolalia. I think that is Greek for fakey fake fakeness-n-shit.