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Phil C. ([personal profile] dslartoo) wrote2010-02-05 07:42 am

Your daily dose of WTF?

I saw this link today via a webcomic I read. I thought it was a joke URL but just for the hell of it I went to look. I shouldn't have done that, because now my brain is exploding and blood is shooting out my nose (phrase TM Lewis Black).

I give you: "After the Rapture Pet Care".

http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com/

Yes, these people are actually attempting to make arrangements for their pets to be taken care of in case the Rapture occurs. Because, you see, being good Christians, they're all going to be caught up by the Rapture, but their pets will be left behind. (I guess because they don't have any souls?) So they're working with non-Christian "volunteers" who have promised to take care of these lost, forlorn, left-behind pets after the Rapture occurs.

........I have no words.

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[identity profile] delathi.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You are looking at this wrong.

This is atheists taking money from stupid people.

[identity profile] dslartoo.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not so sure about that. They claim that half the fees go to various administrative functions, which is another way of saying that they use up the $$ themselves. The other half supposedly goes into a savings account which is to be "untouched until the Rapture", but there's no mention of how the volunteers would access that account or how the funds would be distributed.

Additionally, there's a disclaimer that the volunteers are not paid for their time and that the odds are "very small" that the funds in the account will be sufficient to pay for the pets' care for even a short time.

Sounds like a lose-lose situation to me. :)

cheers,
Phil