*FAIL*

[poptart]

21 burned in walk over hot coals at Robbins event


Walking across hot coals on lanes measuring 10 feet long and heated to between
1,200 to 2,000 degrees provides attendees an opportunity to "understand that there
is absolutely nothing you can't overcome," according to the motivational speaker's website.

"I just heard these screams of agony," he told The Associated Press. People were
in pain. It sounded like people were being tortured."

[BSmack]

Absolutely awesome.

[Diego in Seattle]

Crap like that will happen when you get gullible people believing in non-logical tales....

[Bizzarofelice]

too many pedicures. gotta let that shit build up if you finna walk on hot coals.

[Screw_Michigan]

...

Crap like that will happen when you get gullible people believing in non-logical tales....

Wait...what?

[poptart]

Darwin is no respecter of one's religious affiliation.

- Marcus

[Mikey]

21 ot of 6000 is only 0.35%. I'd say they had a pretty good sucess rate. Some of those morons prolly ignored the advice not to stand still on the coals.

[Truman]

In related news .....

Serpent-handling pastor profiled earlier in Washington Post dies from rattlesnake bite

Handling snakes is supposed to make you successful in business and fabulously wealthy?

:?

[Mikey]

Handling snakes is supposed to make you successful in business and fabulously wealthy?

:?

Maybe not but it does make you a prime candidate for Darwin award recognition.

Mark Randall “Mack” Wolford was known all over Appalachia as a daring man of conviction. He believed that the Bible mandates that Christians handle serpents to test their faith in God — and that, if they are bitten, they trust in God alone to heal them.

He and other adherents cited Mark 16:17-18 as the reason for their practice: “And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

I guess they don't teach the meaning of "allegory" in West VA.

Or wherever pops was raised, for that matter...

[Derron]

And all those idiots who walked on the hot coals paid Robbins huge jack to do it.

Wonder if they will get their money back ?

[Mikey]

And all those idiots who walked on the hot coals paid Robbins huge jack to do it.

Wonder if they will get their money back ?

They prolly all signed a waiver so, not likely.

Maybe if they could prove the food was substandard...

[Felix]

I guess they don't teach the meaning of "allegory" in West VA.

The son of a serpent handler who himself died in 1983 after being bitten, Wolford was trying to keep the practice alive, both in West Virginia, where it is legal, and in neighboring states where it is not.

they might not know how to spell it, but they take irony to a whole new level.....

[smackaholic]

rack that rattlesnake and g0d for deciding not to waste any healin' powers on that dumbfukk.

wonder if the good pastor has a son? and will he be as stupid as his old man and gramps?

c'mon, boy, get in there and show that fukkin' snake who's boss. give ole chuck D a chance to hit for the cycle.