yet another from the "crap you can't make up" department...

[acroyear]

Caring for Pets Left Behind by the Rapture - BusinessWeek:

Many people in the U.S.—perhaps 20 million to 40 million—believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetimes, followed by the Rapture . In this event, they say, the righteous will be spirited away to a better place while the godless remain on Earth. But what will become of all the pets?

Bart Centre, 61, a retired retail executive in New Hampshire, says many people are troubled by this question, and he wants to help. He started a service called Eternal Earth-Bound Pets that promises to rescue and care for animals left behind by the saved.

Promoted on the Web as "the next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World," the service has attracted more than 100 clients, who pay $110 for a 10-year contract ($15 for each additional pet.) If the Rapture happens in that time, the pets left behind will have homes—with atheists. Centre has set up a national network of godless humans to carry out the mission. "If you love your pets, I can't understand how you could not consider this," he says.

Comments

[katrinb.livejournal.com]

Actually, though, if I were God, the pets would be the first to be swept up into bliss. Then the atheists. Then everyone else but the fundies. Just to mess with the fundamentalists' minds, really. I wouldn't condemn ANYONE to hell, at least not forever.

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

I suspect that for some Fundamentalists, being in any non-Fundamental afterlive would be hell.

If I were god, pets and the people who have treated them with dignity and love would be swept up first (there are a lot of animals out there that would probably be happier with their people). The people who don't have pets but have treated animals and the environment well will be in the second wave. Most politicians wouldn't have a chance.