re: #153 CuriousLurker

OT Observation/Thoughts: A sort of “open letter” post regarding the recently deceased pastor of a snake handling Pentecostal church in Kentucky came in via my Google alerts this morning. I don’t know if you guys will find it interesting, but I did even though I don’t believe as he does.

I guess we can all find justification for our beliefs, how outlandish they seem to others, and no matter how many times logic needs to be bent like a pretzel to make it work. I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t find it something to sneer at or ridicule, but rather… I dunno, there is a lot of human… I guess just humanity, the quality of being human—not all good or all bad, and certainly not always logical, but just human—demonstrated in it.

Here’s the first paragraph of the obituary of the pastor:

Anyway… that is all.

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