{"id":2464,"date":"2021-01-04T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T05:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2021-01-04T00:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T05:12:17","slug":"megachurch-to-add-snake-handling-live-tigers-to-packed-maskless-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2021\/01\/04\/megachurch-to-add-snake-handling-live-tigers-to-packed-maskless-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Megachurch to add snake handling, live tigers to packed, maskless services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After receiving criticism for holding indoor church services with hundreds of people without distancing or mask requirements<\/a>, a Cleveland megachurch decided to step up their faith by adding snake handling<\/a> and live tigers to their services<\/a>, during a time when Tennessee was ranked first in the nation<\/a> for new COVID-19 cases per capita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Jesus taught us to turn the other cheek, but he also taught us not to be pussies,” said churchgoer Clyde Tamrenn. “Man, having these tigers just roam free is taking my faith to the next level, even though they’re kind of spooked by the loud music and all the jumping and singing and people falling down crying.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Y’all, dig on this double dog determinism from my main man John Calvin<\/a>: God already knows if each of us is preordained to eternal life or eternal damnation, along with the interpretation of divine foreknowledge and omniscience that can be compatible with metaphysical free will,” said Tamrenn. “So even if we choose to party with these rattlesnakes and wild tigers, whether or not we get poisoned and horribly mauled is up to God’s will.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So likewise, I can choose to walk across a busy highway without looking, and if I die, then hey, God’s will,” said Tamrenn. “At least I’m not a pussy, like Satan.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After receiving criticism for holding indoor church services with hundreds of people without distancing or mask requirements, a Cleveland megachurch decided to step up their faith by adding snake handling and live tigers to their services, during a time when Tennessee was ranked first in the nation for new COVID-19 cases per capita. “Jesus taught us to turn the other cheek, but he also taught us not to be pussies,” said churchgoer Clyde Tamrenn. “Man, having these tigers just roam free is taking my faith to the next level, even though they’re kind of spooked by the loud music and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}