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Atheists' kind offer of help to Christians
BillieTheBot
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It's a question that all animal-loving Christian evangelicals must address: who will look after their pets on Earth when the Rapture comes and they are taken up to heaven?
Now a group of atheists in the US have come up with a tongue-in-cheek solution, offering to take in the cats and dogs of "saved" believers in return for a small fee.
All the atheists signed up by Eternal Earth-Bound Pets are self-confessed sinners and blasphemers, guaranteeing they will be left behind when the chosen are selected
The business idea is an irreverent attempt to cash in on the belief – widespread among US Christians – that the pious will be carried up to heaven by God in a sudden swoop, leaving unbelievers to endure the seven-year reign of the anti-Christ on Earth.
According to some polls, as many as 55 per cent of Americans believe in the notion of the Rapture.
"You've committed your life to Jesus. You know you're saved. But when the Rapture comes what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind?" the group's website asks.
"Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind."
For $110, the firm promises lifetime care for almost all domestic pets if their owners are transported to heaven within the next ten years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6106462/Atheists-offer-to-care-for-Christians-pets-after-the-Rapture.html
There- let there not be said that atheists are unkind or unfriendly to Christians...
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Yeah, I'll let you keep one or two.
Two groups of seemingly misguided people.
Bit harsh I'm sure a lot of the atheists roped into the publicity stunt really do care for animals and are not being at all exploited by people off-loading their dead grannies pet cat on them
Granny wouldn't be dead; she'd have gone to a better place.
The scheme is a win-win situation for all concerned methinks
Not if they've priced it $110 - vets bills, dog food, kennels they've way underpriced... Seems to me all I have to do to get rid of that unwanted dog my parents left me is to sign up, pay the $110 and then leave a note saying I've been called up by the rapture and let this poor schmuck pay the dog's bill for next fifteen years