Response to comment [from a Christian]: "There were a few good lines...caught Chrys in a lie, SD in a lie..."

You’re projecting again. link

Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "...I carefully stepped around two snakes - both of them dead, one of them a rattlesnake."

Sure it wasn't a bull snake? They look similar.

Response to comment [from a pagan]:  "Bull snakes have rattles?"

They can't actually rattle but they mimic rattlesnakes. So do hognose snakes.