Son of "Snake Salvation" pastor, who recently died of a fatal snakebite, says he too will handle the snake and refuse medical treatment if bitten.

Son Cody Coots, pictured on the far left.

Courtesy of TMZ:  

Bite me once shame on you ... the new pastor in the "Snake Salvation" church will NOT accept medical treatment today if he's bitten by the rattlesnake that killed his father exactly one week ago. 

Cody Coots tells TMZ ... he will indeed handle the deadly snake during the afternoon Kentucky service. What's more, he says there will be NO anti-venom meds on hand in case the snake attacks again. 

And ... if he's bitten and paramedics rush to the church, he'll send them away ... just like his dad Jamie Coots did. 

Cody tells TMZ, "I will lay right there and say to everyone, it's God's will. It's good enough to live by, and good enough to die by." 

You know it is going to be increasing hard for these simple minded yokels to deny the teachings of Charles Darwin if they are going to keep receiving his awards. 

You know you have to admire a Christian faith that has its own expiration date baked right into its religious practices. Perhaps the only thing that would be faster is a faith based on the belief that God will negate the laws of gravity for the true believers, and whose congregation meets on the edge of a cliff every Sunday.

Snake handling preacher, whose father died of snakebite, dies of snakebite. Boy God works in mysterious ways, doesn't he?

Courtesy of NBC News:  

West Virginia preacher Mark Randall "Mack" Wolford, who believed Christians should handle snakes to test their faith, died after a rattlesnake bit him over the weekend. 

Wolford was bitten on the thigh about 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, but he didn't come to the hospital until 10:30 p.m., a nursing supervisor at Bluefield Regional Medical Center told the Charleston Daily Mail. The incident occurred during an outdoor service at Panther State Forest, about 80 miles west of Bluefield in southern West Virginia, the paper said. 

Wolford had turned 44 on Saturday. He had seen his father die of a snakebite when he was teenager, the Daily Mail reported. 

The Washington Post Magazine had profiled Wolford in a story in November about the snake-handling faith. The Post said adherents cite Mark 16:17-18: “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.” 

Snake-handling is legal in West Virginia, and Wolford was trying to keep it alive there and in neighboring states where it is not, the Post reported. 

The Daily Mail reported that Wolford was bitten Sunday by a yellow timber rattlesnake -- named Sheba -- that he had often handled.

And do you know what? Next Sunday the church will be filled with people handling snakes, speaking in tongues, and blaming Satan for taking away their preacher.

Cause believing all of that is so much easier than facing reality for some people.

The only "Joe" I want to hear about from now on is Joe Biden, No "Joe the Plumber", no "Joe sixpack", and no freaking "Joe Lieberman"!

I hate it when I cannot quite understand somebodies motivation for doing what they have done.

Now I just figured that after 9-11 Lieberman got scared shitless so he quickly hid under the skirts of the GOP who were talking tough and puffing out their chests. You know, doing manly stuff.

But then it became clear that the Bush administration had made a number of truly stupid mistakes and had misled the American people, Lieberman still would not step away from the rotting corpse.

So in 2006, due to his infatuation with the Republicans, he loses the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont declares he is now an Independent and, with the support and money of his new Republican buddies, retains his seat in the Senate.

So you would think that Joe would try to show the Dems that he is still one of them and jump right on board the train to support Barack Obama, who is so charismatic he even brings a number of Republican stalwarts into the fold.

But no, Lieberman decides to support, campaign, and appear at the RNC, with his pal John McCain. He also attacks the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, as inexperienced. In other words he places yet another knife in the back of the Democratic party, right next to the many others that he has already placed there earlier.

So why do we keep his ass on the Governmental Affairs Committee as chairman? The Democrats are in charge and they can simply put somebody else, you know somebody more "Democratty", in that position. So why not?

Why not? Because the big baby said that if we take the Chairmanship away he may stop voting with the Democrats and throw his weight behind the Republicans. That is why. Which will help those of you who are confused as to why there is so much focus on the Senate races up here in Alaska, in Georgia, and Minnesota.

But in my opinion regardless of whether Democrats win those seats or not, it is time to kick Lieberman to the curb. He is not a Democrat. He is not an Independent. He is a Republican!

He may vote with the Democrats on some issues, but so do some of the Republicans.

I don't care if the Democrats want to appear all cuddly and non-threatening to the Republicans or not. They need to flex their muscles, stiffen their spines, show some balls, and any other euphemisms denoting strength and certainty that you can imagine.

Lieberman should be used as an example of how Democrats will deal with turncoats, and Democrats in name only. There are important policies that need to be put in place and we cannot have any "occasional Democrats " holding up the process. Simply throw Lieberman to the wolves, and then reach out to some of those moderate Republicans who have been embarrassed by George Bush and who are up for re-election in 2010.

This will send the message that Democrats are tough, but that they are not total dicks, like Republicans. I truly believe that is a message for our times.