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The Middlesboro, Kentucky preacher who starred in a reality show about snake-handling died Saturday night after being bitten by a snake.

The Middlesboro Police Department said that at around 8 p.m., they responded to a possible snake bite at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus [sic] Name church, but that its pastor, the star of the National Geographic Channel’s Snake Salvation, Jamie Coots, had already left the scene by the time they arrived.

EMS responders then went to Coots’s home, where he was found suffering from what they believed was a snake bite. They attempted to administer treatment, but Coots refused on account of his belief that God would not allow him to die from a snake bite.

He died at his home at approximately 10 p.m.

Snake-handlers believe that their ability to hold, and occasionally dance with snakes comes from what are called “the signs of the gospels,” which are found in Mark 16: “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.”

Coots starred in Snake Salvation alongside Andrew Hamblin of the Tabernacle Church of God in Tennessee.

 

Watch a video of the late Coots and Hamblin handing snakes from The Tennessean below.

 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/16/snake-handling-star-of-snake-salvation-reality-show-dies-from-snake-bite/

 

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When I encounter Western Diamond Backs out here in the desert Southwest I definitely keep my distance. Reptiles of this sort are not socially adept to humans. I guess these characters also drink cyanide, arsenic and other tasty brews. LOL.

 

Some of the tribes out here use rattlers in ritual dances but use more intelligence in handling very large rattlers.

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I prefer to handle the non-venomous type ... these guys are sweeties and love a warm cuddle on a cold day.

 

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However if I took one to a tabernacle Church of God ... I'm sure he'd bite me.

 

There are certain places and people they DONT like however;

 

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(taken at Fashion Week in Sydney ... tap out NOW Kristy Hinze ! )

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noted snake handler jamie coots, featured on national geographic's "snake salvation" died this past weekend of a snake bite.coots was a 4th generation handler/preacher

 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/snake-handling-pentecostal-pastor-dies-snake-bite/story?id=22551754

 

westboro baptist may attend coots' funeral to protest.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/jamie-coots-snake-handling-pastor-martyr

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling

 

there are 5 or so listed snake handling churches that are open to the public, there are also around 125 snake handling churches that do not let "outsiders" attend services nor do they grant interviews.

coots' church was open to the public and he was open to talk about his practices.

 

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