Homer: Aah! It’s the Rapture! Quick, get Bart out of the house before God comes!
The Rapture, according to the proponents Scroll down to “The Pretribulation Rapture”
<<But the insurance adjusters “left behind” (most of them I presume!) probably wouldn’t believe it was an Act of God.>>
Doesn’t matter if they believe it personally. If they have a boatload of claims for a boatload of raptured policy holders, they’ll find a way to disallow it. What else would they call the mass disappearance? It would be right there in their numbers.
Although I guess their first shot would be “Now Mr. Jones, did your wife say anything about being unhappy with your marriage before she disappeared?”
I haven’t read the books. What percentage of folks made the cut? Or do they avoid the pesky numbers thing?