I have swerved to run over hundreds of busted fan belts lying on or beside the roadway in hopes that one of them might be a snake upon closer view. There is nothing like the joy of seeing one of those devil-creatures writhing around in my rear view mirror.
Snakes are not evil; only man has the capability of evil here on earth. Snakes kill only to feed and protect; they do not hunt down man or have a vendetta against humans. I am also a Christian, and believe in the word of God in the Bible. But the snake being shown as 'evil' in the Garden of Eden was only shown as allegory; it does not profess to categorize all snakes as evil creatures.
In India, the cobra is both feared and revered, because it kills and eats an animal that has killed a million times more people than snakes ever have: the rat. Rats don't have the scary characteristics a snake employs, but there toll on humanity has been devastating even in to the 21st century. It is natural for us to fear animals that can kill us by poisoning or constriction, but to wantonly slaughter snakes because we don't like them is naive and dangerous.