Atheist offers to send letters post-Rapture (ROFLMAO)

[paularoid]

Gotta hand it to this guy if he can at least break even. :D

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-05-08-post-rapture_N.htm

Neither snow, nor rain, nor fire and brimstone will keep Joshua Witter from the swift completion of his appointed rounds come the end of the world.

Witter, a 24-year-old self-described atheist living in Orlando, is the creator of the Post-Rapture Post, which bills itself as "the postal service of the saved."

For as little as $4.99, Witter offers to deliver your letters to friends and loved ones left behind after the Rapture, when some Christians believe they will be whisked up to heaven while everyone else — the "Left Behind" of the popular book series — suffers a series of tribulations.

As Witter sees it, it will fall to the unsaved to serve as the postmen of the Apocalypse.

"Do you want to take the chance that your loved ones will have to suffer through your ascension into Heaven without knowing how you really feel in your heart?" the site asks. "Sign up for the Post-Rapture Post today to guarantee that, while you are gone, you will remain in the thoughts of those left behind."

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Read the whole story at the link:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-05-08-post-rapture_N.htm

[hoops]

now that guy knows how to plan ahead! lol, he's gonna be a rich man on the day after the last day
peace
hoops

[Rkitko]

I believe there's also a pending e-mail that shall be sent out once the rapture comes. This gentleman believes he'll be taken up to heaven, so the e-mail will only be sent out if he isn't around to reset the timer. People can sign up others to let them know where they went.

http://www.raptureletters.com/

I signed up my best friend ;) It's only funny because we're both "unbelievers".

[DaveM]

Dangit, I wish I'd thought of this....there has to be some way of making a fortune FROM the fundies apart from leading them.

The truly astonishing thing about "the Rapture" is that it is not even Biblical, having made its debut in a commentary in the 1909 Scofield Reference Bible. Mind, there have been plenty of sects over the years who believed they were going to "ascend" at some particular time, but "the Rapture" seems to have captured a far wider imagination.

I'd still like to be able to skim a bit of the cream off of this crop. And, to be fair-minded, I'd be just as happy to come up with some badly-written screed like "The Celestine Prophecy" as I would to find some new way to say "Jesus is about to arrive--give me money".

I do give this fellow points for expecting his customers to believe that their relatives are sinful, unChristian, or otherwise unworthy of the delights they believe to be their rightful due. Isn't that the case in most families?

[DaveM]

Just a follow-up to the above (and a true story):

During the Cold War/Red Scare/Civil Defense era, every public fallout shelter was stocked with a bunch of cards to be filled out by everyone on arrival. They were change of address cards, to be sent of to the Post Office via some unknown means to insure that folks would still get their mail while waiting for the radiation count to drop.

Remarkable optimism, I must say. And yet another fine example of Your Tax Dollars At Work.