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ScratchMonkey
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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject: What happens to my pets when I'm Raptured? |
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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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ruveyn
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Your pets are going to die during the Tribulation.
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CloudWalker
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| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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But all dogs go to heaven, right? |
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phil777
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| ^ Nice one. |
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Jono
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| 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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ScratchMonkey
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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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ruveyn
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ScratchMonkey wrote: | 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. |
It amazes me that people in the 21-st century can believe such dribble.
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leejosepho
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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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.
Ruveyn: Am I even close?
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Giftorcurse
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You aren't going to be taken up at all, because only the Aryans are worthy.
Just joking.
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pandabear
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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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WhiskeyInTheJar
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| pandabear wrote: | 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. |
I hope they are safe from the cats who weren't signed up. 
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WhiskeyInTheJar
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| CloudWalker wrote: |
But all dogs go to heaven, right? |
'The lord is my shepherd' 
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0_equals_true
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Wasn't this whole concept of rapture invented in the 19th century?
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phil777
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Exactly. Only in the USA people.  |
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david_42
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:28 am Post subject: |
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Wasn't this whole concept of rapture invented in the 19th century? |
Correct. The origin was some time between 1780 and 1830, but it was the tent revival movement of the 1880s that spread it widely. |
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