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Rapture Website opens

by on05 June 2008

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You've been what?


Fundamentalist Christians worried that their friends and family will not know what has happened to them after Christ returns have now got the chance to send them email after they have gone.

For those who came in late, a popular flavor of Christianity believes in a situation called the 'rapture,' where Christ comes back and all his followers disappear to be saved before the end of the world. The idea is based on a dubious reading of two or three Bible verses taken out of context, but is taken as gospel by many U.S. fundamentalists.  It is for them that YouveBeenLeftBehind.com has been started up.

The idea is that after the rapture the friends and relatives of Christians who have been taken by God will want to know what has happened to them. So, they will be able to go to the site and receive some post-Rapture messages. The service is not cheap.  For $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture.

The site is being run "by Christians, for Christians," although it is not clear how they will be able to guarantee service after the rapture because presumably they would have been taken, too. To be sure, the e-mails will be triggered when three of the site's five Christian staffers "scattered around the U.S." fail to log in for six days in a row.

More amusing is the fact that the site wants users to store sensitive financial information on the site so that those left behind will be able to tidy up your finances. This will mean that the One World government of the Anti-Christ will not get your stuff when you depart. We would have thought that facing the end of the world, knowing your bank account details would be the last thing on your relatives' minds.
 
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Last modified on 05 June 2008
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