I hate snakes. Always have. Always will. I do not understand people like George Hensley. George claimed to be the founder of the religious snake-handling movement that still exists today in parts of Appalachia. He traveled around the south during the early 1900’s, spreading snake-handling religion throughout the region. George died in 1955. Of a snakebite. I don’t understand people like George Hensley. Or for that matter…John the Baptist! Did you catch his “snake-handling” act in the reading from Luke 3:7-18? John, if you remember, was Jesus’ older cousin. When the time was right for Jesus to begin his [READ MORE]