Now that’s what I call a business plan. Sounds like something from The Onion, but it’s not.
Wonder how many people have actually taken them up on the offer? This opens up whole new thought patterns for me as well. I’ve always thought fleecing believers had to be done from a position inside the organized religions, but now I’m thinking outside the box for ways it can be done by anyone. Hmm…
Wow that’s brilliant. I was just planning on taking their stuff, the shortcoming of which is it requires a rapture to happen.
Didn’t we just have a thread on this?
I’m of two minds on this. First, anything that makes fun of Christians is awesome and cool. On the other hand, belief in the Rapture is inherently delusional and (perhaps) a sign of latent schizophrenia, and taking advantage of people with mental illness is just wrong, dang it. 
Well, yes, but it makes them feel good that some nonbeliever will take care of Fluffy.
Can Jews get in on this?
Bah. They can think of it as pet insurance.
But don’t all dogs go to heaven?
That’ll be best since they have a chance of being among the Special 144,000 Jews chosen to survive the Tribulation.
(There’ll be more than 144,000, but that number seem to have some special task that’s not spelled out in Revelation.)
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I thought the 144,000 were the ones who do get raptured. The 144,000 have to live through the 7 years of hell on earth?
Then what’s the biblical basis for some people just vanishing or ascending when the whole thing starts?
Well, in Revelation, nowhere that is obvious. There are passages that may suggest the Rapture- Ch 7: 9-17 the Great Company in Heaven, Ch 11: 11-19 the Two Witnesses raised alive to Heaven, Ch 12: 5 the ManChild who is caught up (Greek word harpazo is related to the Latin rapto) to God, Ch 14: 14-16 those who are reaped from the Earth by the Son of Man and appear in Heaven in Ch 15 before the last Seven Plagues are poured out. Some have seen the Rev 4-5 invitation of John into God’s Throne Room and the presence of the Twenty-Four Elders there as symbolic of the Rapture before any of the Tribulation begins.
Btw, the 144,000 are mentioned in Revelation 7 & 14. In Ch 7, they are definitely on Earth. In Ch 14, they may be in Heaven with Christ (either by rapture or martyrdom) or on Earth but He is spiritually with them.
The vanishing/ascending/rapture passages are Matthew 24: 30-31, 37-44;
I Corinthians 15: 51-52, I Thessalonians 4: 16-17 (also II Thess 2:6-8- IF it is the presence of Christians in the world that keep the Man of Sin, aka the AntiChrist, from arising).
I remember an episode of Law & Order revolving around a website that for a fee offered to handle people’s affairs (mostly goodbye e-mails) after the Rapture.
I wonder: in general, in terms of stock trading, insurance, etc, how exactly can you make money by betting that someone will never disappear? Insurance is the usual means of betting something will never happen, but people who expect to not be around don’t need insurance, at least not for themselves. Things like selling stock short are time-frame dependent: you need to specifiy when something will or will not happen. “Reverse mortgages” only work if you believe that you will be here after someone else is gone, and only Rapture believers would expect people to disappear due to the Rapture.
I don’t know about a thread but their web site was in Weird Earl’s last month.
Google [“rainbow bridge” pet] for a lesson in glurge you will not soon forget.