A New Hampshire atheist is offering Christians who believe in the Rapture a service to look after their pets when they get taken up into eternity, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.
Bart Centre, 61, a retired retailing executive, is co-owner of Eternal Earthbound Pets, which charges $110 for the pet service.
"It’s a money-making venture," he said, calling it a "win-win situation."
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Centre says he has called up a network of atheist families and friends in 22 states, who would step in to look after the animals.
Coverage is good for 10 years, he says. If there is no Rapture by then, he keeps the cash.
"There are no refunds," he said. "If I thought the Rapture was really going to happen, I wouldn’t have the business."
He says he’s gotten 4,000 emails, mostly from fellow atheists. About 10%, he says, are Christians who think it’s a fun idea and wish him luck, and an undisclosed handful who have even signed up for the service.
The paper quotes Terry James, editor of a popular, Arkansas-based Christian website called Rapture Ready, as finding the project amusing.
"It’s a scam," he tells the paper, " . . . Anyone who would take that offer seriously, well, how would you even follow up?"
But James concedes that the pet issue is real. He says he has written a pamphlet to worried Christians counseling that if people in Heaven find they miss their pets, they can decide to have them brought up later.
My question…is this where the saying a sucker is born every minute comes from?
That, and anyone believing in a god.
Hahaha I think its funny. At worst some people that can afford it feel comforted a bit. So whatever.
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my kitty comin to heven wit me. she gonna fly around the cluds and stuff with me. we gunna hve tons of fun. ur gonna see me there with my kitty. her name is mimi and my name is mandi.
my cat is soooooooooo cute! she is black with brown spots. shes a littlbe bby! i pick her up and we run around the house to pretnd like we flying. she gets mad somtimes and scrathces me. its cute thugh.
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I don’t believe the rapture will be happening for a couple hundred years yet so he will be long gone by then. How does he know though that the pets wont also be raptured as christian pets?
When the rapture does occur then I think offering service as a pet minder would be the least of his worries. There’s going to be a massive genocide upon the Earth like never seen before. Any animals wouldn’t need looking after or feeding because they’ll have plenty of atheist flesh to feast upon.
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That, and anyone believing in a god.
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Will I am a Christian, but I got to give it to him, he will strike it rich, well at least in this life time, off of gullible people, but what a price to pay.
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That all depends on whether Bart is willing to live up to his agreement. If so, then the money will be worth it to the pets anyway.
Wouldn’t it be odd though, if (I suspend my faith here) rapture really happens. I wonder what people will think has happened? It will be all over the news and will cause a real panic I think. I wonder if airline pilot teams are vetted so that one or the other isn’t a true Christian? There will be people who think that the aliens have done something too. And then there will be others who fear a new plague. There will be plenty of bodies to deal with. At least then, the people who have had to put up with all the nonsense of their born again Christian friends and family will get the message when it is discovered that all these dead bodies are true Christians.
Sure will be strange. What will you think, do you think?
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I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left. " Where, Lord?" they asked. He replied, "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather." Luk 17:34+