Вера или…

Сколько конфессий уже существует?! Вот, к примеру, есть Христианская конфессия одна из ветвей Пятидесятников, которые верят в…

17. Уверовавших же будут сопровождать сии знамения: именем Моим будут изгонять бесов; будут говорить новыми языками;
18. будут брать змей; и если что смертоносное выпьют, не повредит им; возложат руки на больных, и они будут здоровы.
(Св. Евангелие от Марка 16:17,18)

Отсюда.

Один из пасторов такой Церкви в Кетакки умер, потому что после того, как его укусила змея, он отказался от медицинской помощи.

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Jamie Coots, a snake-handling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation,” died Saturday after being bitten by a snake.
Coots was handling a rattlesnake during a Saturday night service at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro when he was bit, another preacher, Cody Winn, told WBIR-TV (http://on.wbir.com/1cLrs8A).
“Jamie went across the floor. He had one of the rattlers in his hand, he came over and he was standing beside me. It was plain view, it just turned its head and bit him in the back of the hand … within a second,” Winn said.
When an ambulance arrived at the church at 8:30 p.m., they were told Coots had gone home, the Middlesboro Police Department said in a news release. Contacted at his house, Coots refused medical treatment.
Emergency workers left about 9:10 p.m. When they returned about an hour later, Coots was dead from a venomous snake bite, police said.
In January 2013, Coots was caught transporting three rattlesnakes and two copperheads through Knoxville, Tenn. Wildlife officials confiscated the snakes, and Coots pleaded guilty to illegally wildlife possession. He was given one year of unsupervised probation.
Coots said then he needed the snakes for religious reasons, citing a Bible passage in the book of Mark that reads, in part: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Coots said he took the passage at face value.
“We literally believe they want us to take up snakes,” Coots told The Associated Press in February 2013. “We’ve been serpent handling for the past 20 or 21 years.”
After he was bitten Saturday night, Coots dropped the snakes, but then picked them back up and continued on. Within minutes, Winn said Coots headed to the bathroom.
His son, Cody, told the television station his dad had been bit eight times before, but never had such a severe reaction. Cody Coots said he thought the bite would be just like all the others.
“We’re going to go home, he’s going to lay on the couch, he’s going to hurt, he’s going to pray for a while and he’s going to get better. That’s what happened every other time, except this time was just so quick and it was crazy, it was really crazy,” Cody Coots said

Полностью.

И все это случилось практически на глазах телезрителей, потому что пастор был укушен гремучей змеёй во время съемок шоу “Snake Salvation,” на National Geographic television

И, вот даже не знаю, как к этому отнестись?!..

Чего здесь больше, Веры, самоуверенности или просто… глупости?

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Подолимпийская история

Это случилось двадцать лет назад, в январе 1994-ого года. Фигуристка Нэнси Кэрриган (Nancy Kerrigan) была атакована на улице. Она получила сильный удар по ноге. Атака случилась накануне Чемпионата США в Детройте. Тогда шла подготовка к Олимпиаде в Лилльехаммере и одной из подозреваемых в нападении на Нэнси Кэрриган стала другая американская фигуристка Тоня Хардинг (Tonya Harding). Расследование показало, что заказчиком атаки был бывший муж Тони Хардинг, Jeff Gillooly.

Тоня Хардинг тоже оказалась замешана в скандале. Она признала себя виновной но избежала тюремного заключения.

Вот такие истории случались в американском спортивном мире.

Harding became notorious in conjunction with the January 6, 1994, attack on her competitor Nancy Kerrigan. The widely publicized attack took place during a practice session on the eve of the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard, Shawn Eckhardt,[6] hired Shane Stant to break Kerrigan’s right leg so that she would be unable to skate. Stant followed her to Detroit after failing to find her at her training rink in Massachusetts, and struck her on the thigh a few inches above the knee with an ASP baton.[34] Her leg was only bruised, not broken, but the injury forced her to withdraw from the national championship. Harding won that event, and they were both selected for the 1994 Olympic team.[35] Harding finished eighth in Lillehammer, while Kerrigan, by then fully recovered from the injury, won the silver medal behind Oksana Baiul.
The attack on Kerrigan and the news of Harding’s alleged involvement led to a media frenzy of saturation news coverage. Kerrigan appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek magazines in January 1994. Reporters and TV news crews attended Harding’s practices in Portland and camped out in front of Kerrigan’s home. CBS assigned Connie Chung to follow her every move in Lillehammer. 400 members of the press jammed into the practice rink in Norway. Scott Hamilton complained that “the world press was turning the Olympics into just another sensational tabloid event”.[36] The tape-delayed broadcast of the short program at the Olympics remains one of the most watched telecasts in American history.[37]
On February 1, 1994, Gillooly accepted a plea bargain in exchange for his testimony against Harding. Gillooly, Stant, Eckhardt, and getaway car driver Derrick Smith all served time in prison for the attack.[38] Eckhardt was sentenced to 18 months in prison for racketeering but was released four months early in September 1995.[6]
Harding avoided further prosecution and a possible jail sentence by pleading guilty on March 16 to conspiring to hinder prosecution of the attackers.[39] She received three years probation, 500 hours of community service, and a $160,000 fine. As part of the plea bargain, she was also forced to withdraw from the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships and resign from the USFSA.[40] On June 30, 1994, after conducting its own investigation of the attack, the USFSA stripped her of her 1994 U.S. Championships title and banned her for life from participating in USFSA-run events as either a skater or a coach.[18] The USFSA concluded that she knew about the attack before it happened and displayed “a clear disregard for fairness, good sportsmanship and ethical behavior”. Although the USFSA has no control over professional skating events, she was also persona non grata on the pro circuit because few skaters and promoters would work with her. Consequently, she failed to benefit from the pro skating boom that ensued in the aftermath of the scandal.[36]
In her 2008 autobiography, The Tonya Tapes, she said that she wanted to call the FBI to reveal what she knew, but refused when Gillooly allegedly threatened her with death following a gunpoint gang rape by him and two other men she did not know. He subsequently changed his name to Jeff Stone and called the allegations “utterly ridiculous”.[7] Eckhardt, who legally changed his name to Brian Sean Griffith following his release from jail, died of natural causes at age 40 on December 12, 2007.[6]

Отсюда.

Несмотря на травму, Нэнси Кэрриган выступила на Олимпиаде в Лилльехаммере и заняла там второе место. Первой была Оксана Баюл.

Все-таки, спорт должен быть спортом. И очень плохо, когда он становится чем-то еще.

И, кстати, Тоня Хардинг отсюда, из Портланда.

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