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Crazy Christian snake handlers may have right idea

Authorities have seized more than 100 snakes, many of them deadly, from the home of a fundamentalist Christian pastor in Kentucky.

Looks like the pastor was buying many of the deadly snakes online for between $50 and $450 a piece.

Choice quote from the local zoo director:

"You can purchase anything off the Internet except common sense ...A venomous snake isn't a pet. You don't play with it. If you do, you're an idiot."

All this makes me wonder..is there some way we can convince complete religious zealots outside of Appalachia to stop shooting doctors, bombing clinics, beating up gay kids and flying planes into buildings and start handling poisonous snakes?

For those of you not hip to Christian snake handling -- let Billy Ray Cyrus school you:

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