Another Stupid Christian

From the New York Daily News:
A snake-handling TV preacher died on Saturday of a snake bite.
Pastor Jamie Coots, the star of “Snake Salvation,” was bitten on the right hand at his Kentucky church, Middlesborough police said.
The Pentecostal holy man refused to go to the hospital or accept any medical treatment, police said.
Coots, whose show appeared on National Geographic’s television channel, believed snake handling was a commandment from God and a viper’s bite was God’s will.
“When I first started church I said if I ever went to a hospital or a doctor over a snake bite I would quit church,” Coots said in one episode.
He had previously survived a bite that cost him most of the middle finger on his right hand. Instead seeking medical attention for the gruesome injury, he let it rot to black, exposing a quarter inch of bone before it broke off.

He kept the stub of the finger in a glass jar for his wife.

“To me it’s as much of a commandment from God when he said, ‘they shall take up serpents’ as it was when he ‘thou shall not commit adultery,” Coots said on the show of snake handling....
Coots was just as resolute on Saturday, according to police.
Cops and medical crews were called about 8:30 p.m. to a church for reports of a snakebite victim, but Coots had already left, police said.
They later found Coots at home and tried to talk him into medical treatment, but he wouldn’t accept it. The crews finally left about 9:10 p.m.
They returned about an hour later with the Bell County deputy coroner and found Coots dead.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pastor-jamie-coots-snake-handling-tv-preacher-dies-viper-bite-article-1.1616382#ixzz2tZElszhJ
This reminds me of a joke I saw a few years ago:  A man was in a terrible flood and was forced to go the roof of hi house.  Hw said God will protect me.
A rescuer came by in a boat and the man said "God will save me" and so the rescuer left.
Another rescuer came by in his boat and asked the man to go with him and the man relied: "God will save me".  And so the rescuer left.
Then the flood got worse and the man died in the flood by drowning and when the man went to heaven, he asked God why he didn't save him and God replied "I sent you two boats and rescuers, so why didn't you use them?".
So, in the case of the pastor snake handler, God provided him with medical care in the local emergency rooms an he chose not to use them.
I have no sympathy for him or his family.