Sentences with phrase «on snake handlers»

«Mack was one of the hopes for a revival of the tradition,» said Ralph Hood, a University of Tennessee professor who's written two books on snake handlers and is probably the foremost academic expert on their culture.

and really isn't calling out islam based on the minority of radical nut jobs like basing all we know about chistianity on snake handlers?

Not exact matches

If you took a Russian Orthodox and a Southern Baptist snake - handler and an Anglican and an Ethiopian Anglican and put them in a room and asked them to agree on things, they'd probably have a huge fistfight.

Pentecostals range from the most developed Assemblies of God churches (increasingly taking on the shape of wider Protestant church life) through southern Holiness - Pentecostal churches, the intensely sectarian «Jesus only» unitarian Pentecostals, and large black and ethnic churches, to the uncharacteristic extremes of Appalachian «snake - handlers,» all too often the only public image of «holy rollers.»

More than a decade later, when I was a pastor's wife on the other coast, the people who heard «southern» and «Baptist» seemed to assume that meant «snake handler» and closed the door as quickly as possible.

Based on your questions, you admit God exists but you hate Him, so I will reply to you accordingly, albeit briefly as possible because these big truths are off the topic of snake handlers.

Your god either doesn't exist or wants everyone to believe he doesn't exist; after all, he did a fine job making math and chemistry self - evident and completely verifiable so that every single person on the planet must perform chemisry the exact same way, be they muslim terrorist or christian snake handler.

Because of her loyalty to her father, Presbyterians would have ranked «just above snake - handlers» on her list of preferred church families.