Is there really a huge controversy over reptile ownership??

[redshepherd]

Religious? Like how?!?! I'm a Christian as is my family and I've never heard one religious objection to snakes!

Same here- but there are always some unreasonable people in the world, and use their religion as a reason for their bias.

The funny thing is that (I mentioned in another thread recently), the "serpent" in the genesis story isn't stated as a snake. God actually "took away the serpent's limbs and cursed it to crawl on the ground forever" or something or other only after the fact, which means it had limbs. Which means that the serpent was not a snake. These people need to stop using the serpent=snake excuse! LOL

[kath_]

Same here- but there are always some unreasonable people in the world, and use their religion as a reason for their bias.

The funny thing is that (I mentioned in another thread recently), the "serpent" in the genesis story isn't stated as a snake. God actually "took away the serpent's limbs and cursed it to crawl on the ground forever" or something or other only after the fact, which means it had limbs. Which means that the serpent was not a snake. These people need to stop using the serpent=snake excuse! LOL

My friend's mom actually won't let her get a snake for religious reasons and calls them "the representation of Satan". And I always follow up with the same argument that the "serpent" actually got its limbs taken away by God so it wasn't even really a snake to begin with. It hasn't gotten me really far but she's also afraid about my ball python breaking out of a padlocked cage at night and strangling me in my sleep...

[Ashley96]

My friend's mom actually won't let her get a snake for religious reasons and calls them "the representation of Satan". And I always follow up with the same argument that the "serpent" actually got its limbs taken away by God so it wasn't even really a snake to begin with. It hasn't gotten me really far but she's also afraid about my ball python breaking out of a padlocked cage at night and strangling me in my sleep...

I lived with my mom for a few months over the summer while I was searching for an apartment and she actually brought this up. She was half joking but I guess I had never even thought of this. Obviously it doesn't phase me and didn't phase her (she learned to love the snakes). I still find it interesting though. When I got my first snake, my roommate at the time also brought the story up and the representation of Satan so I think it could be a common belief among some Christians.