The people are overwhelmingly poor, uneducated, and religious in an aggressive way that’s unsettling.Īlso, I’m screamingly terrified of snakes and want nothing to do with them, venomous or otherwise, but I would never condone abuse against any animal and the way the snakes are kept and handled seemed to indicate they weren’t treated well. I had to stop watching it though, because despite my morbid fascination, it was a big bummer in many ways.
This led me to some episodes of the show Snake Salvation, a reality show following several of these preachers and their families and congregations. And drink poison and touch fire, and if they’re anointed by the spirit, as they say, God will protect them from the inherent danger. It started when people came down from the hills to discover they were surrounded by a hostile and spiritually dead culture.”Īt some point last year, I read an article, I think either about a preacher getting arrested or else bitten and killed, and I learned about the Southern Pentecostal groups that interpret a Bible verse literally to mean they should handle venomous snakes. “Snake handling didn’t originate back in the hills somewhere.
Book review: Salvation on Sand Mountain, by Dennis Covington
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