No. Pity the children.

I feel more anger towards the fallacy that such an activity is favored by any organization.

No sympathy at all. If some people choose to cull themselves from the herd by doing stupid things, great. I'd send a thank-you note, but they're dead, so...

Nope. They are prime candidates to win "Darwin Awards". They wanted notoriety, and they go tit. I might feel sorry for any kids they leave behind. I mean what kid wouldn't be embarrassed that their parent died by handling snakes in a religious fervor?

Nope. Handle a venomous animal without proper training, and you get what you deserve. that's what Darwin Awards are for.

no, i feel for the snakes being dragged out of the wild and getting killed. I hope more get bitten.

This has been going on for a hundred years in a part of the country where the education system has failed and poverty is dominant and generations of children are raised and immersed in a religious cult. This is part of their identity and completely normal to them.

Even though it is illegal there doesn't appear to be any enforcement of the laws or they wouldn't be all over the internet.

Better quality of education and a healthy economy would help to wipe out the majority of these cults otherwise this will still be going on in a hundred years from now.

So sad.

i think it is natural selection, mankind overall becomes more intelligent

Not at all... they took it to the extreme to prove a point and it backfired. That's like putting all your money on black and it spins to a double zero or red. Not even a 50/50 chance. Ha... !

No,I do not feel pity for snake handlers, because they still kept faith and died for it, refusing medical care. They died, happily, believing that they would not die or that it was god's will, should they die .

I guess part of me feels bad, but at the same time it seems like these are willfully ignorant people and I have difficulty wasting much time pitying them when there are real victims in the world who aren't self-deluded fools.

Why did it have to be snakes?

I believe it is God's way of cleaning up the gene pool.

I feel pity for children who are brought up to believe in such stupid, dangerous nonsense.

I have a very hard time feeling pity for someone who would have looked at an atheist like me as if I were something they scraped off of their shoe.

LOL Not really.

They fought common sense

No, but it is fascinating to me. Like a train wreck ,nobody wants to look but you just can't help yourself