What happens to my pets when I'm Raptured?

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27 Oct 2009, 5:35 pm

This amusing service hit the news this week:

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

It's a company that offers to take care of your pet when the Rapture comes. All caretakers are guaranteed to be atheists who have done something to insure they won't be "taken up with the Lord" and hence will be available to care for your pet.

To see just how popular this meme is, check out all the google hits you get searching for pet rapture:

http://www.google.com/search?q=rapture+pets

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27 Oct 2009, 7:14 pm

Your pets are going to die during the Tribulation.

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27 Oct 2009, 8:11 pm

:lmao:

But all dogs go to heaven, right?

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28 Oct 2009, 8:30 am

^ Nice one.

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28 Oct 2009, 9:53 am

The rapture was never really part of the Book of Revelations. The early Christians who lived at the time of the apostles believed that Christ would return in their lifetimes. It's been 2000 years and it still hasn't happened. Since it doesn't Book of Revelations to begin with, that's a moot point anyway.

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28 Oct 2009, 1:33 pm

Some would claim that all Christians believe the same thing. A review of this article on the Rapture shows that it's not quite so uniform:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

Only a few centuries ago, people fought major wars over disagreements like this.

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28 Oct 2009, 2:43 pm

ScratchMonkey wrote:

It amazes me that people in the 21-st century can believe such dribble.

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28 Oct 2009, 2:54 pm

There is not going to be any "rapture". That idea is just something somebody dreamed up a century or two ago. And, "left behind" is actually a good thing ... and we will see who is still standing after the smoke from the destruction of all evil clears.

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28 Oct 2009, 5:59 pm

You aren't going to be taken up at all, because only the Aryans are worthy.

Just joking.

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28 Oct 2009, 10:03 pm

How long are people supposed to have to prepare for the rapture? If I signed up for this, and my pet was locked away some where when I was raptured, how would the rescuers find my pet?

I guess that my ghost would have to come back and point the way.

Anyway, all that I have are fish. As long as I put in some vacation feeders just before I was raptured, they might last until I came back after the tribulations.

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