It's a tale as old as time: some guy discovers a verse in the Bible, he's convinced no one has ever noticed it before him, he doesn't bother to look into what thousands of years' worth of scholars have had to say about it, and he starts his own movement based on a single sentence. Sometimes it's the sort of thing that turns into a weird historical footnote; sometimes it results in strange phenomena like horned Moseses or Calvinism; and sometimes it results in dozens of people dying from snake bites.
This week, we're going to talk about that last thing.
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