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February 17th, 2014
03:44 PM ET
Reality Show Snake-handling Preacher Dies - of Snakebite
A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality show about snake-handling in church has died - of a snakebite.
Jamie Coots died Saturday evening after refusing to be treated, Middleborough police said.
On "Snake Salvation," the ardent Pentecostal believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural South.
Coots was a third-generation "serpent handler" and aspired to one day pass the practice and his church, Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, on to his adult son, Little Cody.
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Pretty sure those people are abusing those poor snakes!!! Shaking them all over, no wonder they get bit! The police needs to take away those snakes and charge those people with animal abuse!!!!