# Snake Handling Pastor Bitten; Dies-Why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-handling-pastor-bitten-dies-why/623656>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 31, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-handling-pastor-bitten-dies-why/623656 "2012-05-31T14:40:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-handling-pastor-bitten-dies-why/623656/6 "2012-05-31T16:09:00Z")

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He forgot about Matthew 4:5-7.

In a nutshell: Don’t deliberately put yourself in harm’s way to show off. He won’t intervene.

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