(CNN) -- A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality
show about snake-handling in church has died -- of a snakebite. Jamie Coots
died Saturday evening after refusing to be treated, Middleborough police said.
On "Snake Salvation," the ardent Pentecostal
believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous
snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The
practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural
South.
Coots was a third-generation "serpent
handler" and aspired to one day pass the practice and his church, Full
Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, on to his adult son, Little Cody.
The National Geographic show featured Coots and cast
handling all kinds of poisonous snakes -- copperheads, rattlers, cottonmouths.
The channel's website shows a picture of Coots, goateed, wearing a fedora.
"Even after losing half of his finger to a snake bite and seeing others
die from bites during services," Coots "still believes he must take
up serpents and follow the Holiness faith," the website says.
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