Posted on 06/20/2010 7:03:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
Register Your Pets With The Post-Rapture Pet Care Registry
Dear Fellow Christian:
As the Apostle Paul describes in Thessalonians as quoted above, at some point in the future Jesus will come in the air, catch up the Church from the earth, and then return to heaven with the Church. This is known as the Rapture and it will be glorious. But what of our pets? Who will take care of our pets when we're gone?
I'm Sharon Moss, and I'd like to help answer that question. First, let me tell you a story.
The After The Rapture Pet Care Story
The idea came from seeing someone else’s joke. An atheist created a site in England that said she’d take care of Christian-owned pets after the Rapture, and asked for 70 pounds as a "donation." She promoted it as a joke, and it virally made the rounds amongst non-believers who enjoy making fun of Christians. My husband saw it (he’s an Internet geek) and told me about it. Admittedly, it seemed funny. I told my friend, Carol, who is not a Christian, and she brought up a question: “Hey, if you get raptured, what happens to Petey?” It was an excellent question, and I didn’t have an answer.
A couple weeks later Carol came back and suggested we start After The Rapture Pet Care together. She said she had asked several Christian friends the same question she’d asked me, and every one of them would pay for a service to ensure the care of their pets after the Rapture. I had also asked some fellow Christians their thoughts. In every case they wished there was a way to prepare for their pets’ survival.
I agreed – it’s a real concern, and a legitimate concern. Our pets are given to us by God for.........
(Excerpt) Read more at aftertherapturepetcare.com ...
1.Our non-Christian administrators will activate our rescue plan.
Go easy on the evangelization of non-Christians. Somebody has to stay behind to look after Tiddles.
I’ll gun down any Raptors that go after my animals.
There’s at least one more of these out there—probably more—run by atheists.
MM (in TX)
Now that is just wrong...
You know, if you made no preparations for the care of your animals in your perpetual absence, then doesn’t that count as a strike against you to go to heaven? I mean, I would expect that God would want us to take reasonably good care of our pets.
“Follow me and let the dead bury their own dead”
bump for later
There's only one strike that keeps you out of heaven: a failure to accept salvation by accepting Christ. With that said, I do believe we should make arrangements for our pets, and I am almost certainly going to sign up with one of these services after I do a bit more research.
The nice Korean man down the street has agreed to take care of Pookie and Buster.
I always assumed animals would be raptured, too.
I'm guessing that government bureaucracies will still be here after the Rapture.
This has got to be someone’s idea of a joke. If not, then it is a blasphemous attempt at trying to elicit guffaws from a heathen population. I am not sure which one, but I am sure that it is not a real service intended to by sincere adults. I am disappointed that this new forum is posting this type of thing.
Moot point.
Maybe that would be a good company name for this fraud.
Floating gently up with halos, harps, and wings?
Or the instantaneous blink of an eye vaporization?
What does the scripture say?
I image that the after the Rapture the state of the world will be such that those left behind will not give a rip about missing peoples pets.
Ash and the catz will appreciate all the tasty rodents on the loose.
And Slytherin’ Susan, of course! Yummy mousies to nom, at room temperature.
My favorite part of this is how they are going to pay the heathens AHEAD OF TIME, to ensure the care after the Rapture.
I’m sure that’s what God intended, for Christians to work hard and provide for the post-rapture follies of those left behind.
Okay, so a pack of secularists have a scheme to bilk the heretics who believe in the rapture. Quite frankly I don’t think much of either group, though on balance, I’d rather see sentimental protestants come up with a way to part atheists from their money, rather than the other way round.
This is the kind of thing that makes Christianity a laughing stock. Really.
I guess it keeps me humble. I keep identifying myself as a Christian and hoping whoever I am talking to hasn’t heard of this type of insanity.
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