I only recently have, though I've had my antitheist stance for years. :-)

A beautiful thing indeed!
Did you know that 9 out of 10 snakes surveyed prefer being handled by atheists over pentecostals.
During an interview, one snake was quoted as saying, "Pentecostal snake handlers have no respect. It's like they are being annoying on purpose, you know, daring us to bite them so their god can smite us or something. It's all very demeaning. All the snakes laugh at them when they go back to their snake pits. If we didn't need our venom for getting food, we'd probably go out of our way to bite pentecostals at every available oportunity. Unfortunately, pentecostals are just to big to swallow. Atheist snake handlers aren't like that at all. With Atheists, its usually about mutual respect and fun."

Actually I just made all that up, but if snakes could talk, I bet that's what they would say about it.

What kind of snakes do you have?

I have 2 ball pythons, and I care for several snakes at UAB. We have the following snakes for use in teaching--
4 black kingsnakes
1 Jacksonville Kingsnake
1 Red milk snake
3 Grey ratsnakes
2 Cornsnakes
1 Garter snake
3 Copperheads
2 Cottonmouths
2 Timber rattlers

It's a lot of work keeping them fed and their cages clean. We bring them around to teach people about snakes. Most are rescued from either irresponsible pet owners, road incidents, yards of people who would have killed them if we had not taken them, or just people brought them to us and left them for no apparent reason. Most are let go back in their natural habitat.