Not all Atheists should be saved - they can be useful.

[Zombie Dave McCaig]

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html#more

You've committed your life to Jesus. You know you're saved. But when the Rapture comes what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind.

We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each
Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you've received your reward. Our network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step up to Jesus.

[monkeybutter]

http://postrapturepost.com/

Do you know someone who is in danger of being "left behind" because of a sinful life? Imagine if you could write a letter to a friend or loved one after the Great Day of Reckoning. Maybe a message to your family telling them to trust in God, and that everything will be okay. Perhaps you would leave instructions to care for your pets after your departure. It could be that your message is the light that opens a sinner's eyes to the Glory of God and allows them entrance to Heaven during the trials before the Second Coming. This is where the Post-Rapture Post comes in.

Just write your letter and it will be hand-delivered immediately following the exodus of the pure from the Earth. But you must be thinking to yourself, "How can the letters be delivered after the Rapture?" The answer is simple. The creators of this site are Atheists. That's right, we don't believe in God. How else would we be able to deliver your correspondence after the Rapture?

my favorite parts of the nuttier rapture stuff is that Christians will suddenly vanish in a puff, leaving atheists in driverless cars, buses, airplanes and trains.

[Sweeney]

For $110.00 we will guarantee that should the Rapture occur within ten (10) years of receipt of payment, one pet per residence will be saved.

Obviously this is not a "we guarantee it or your money back" offer.

[Brian Frey ~ halfmoth]

I saw this book in the grocery checkout... For Complete Idiots... Did-- did they meant that as a joke?

[Laura]

That earthbound-pets and post-rapture-post stuff is BRILLIANT!! Why didn't I think of it?! Man, that's awesome.

-- Laura

[Jemm]

Eh...


[insert what's going through my mind in these brackets which is something not so very nice].

[Zombie Dave McCaig]

Something Christian though, right?

[Jemm]

haha I like how you phrased that.


Don't wanna get into it really so I'm gonna opt out of this thread for now <:

[Zombie Dave McCaig]

Righto.

[monkeybutter]

so what is christian doctrine on animals having souls anyway? yes? no? question too stupid to give any consideration?

[monkeybutter]

I guess what I'm really wondering here is whether any significant biblical scholar has given this any serious consideration.

warning: if its a pope and you don't want me to laugh at catholics, don't tell me.

[Jemm]

monkeybutter: Animals are considered pure, they won't be judged, just accepted. They don't sin. Only human beings have free will and will be judged on those grounds.


Also really I post on this thread with reluctance... I feel like people get constant fun out of mocking Christians all the time, on every art site and board I visit, and it is really alienating (and unfair but thus is the story of my life). I should be used to it really, but that doesn't make it feel any less shitty. Perhaps I'm such a downer and raining on the parade because this is the seventh anti/mocking Christian thread I've had to come across today.

In other words, how would you feel to wake up to any or all of the above every single day on the sites you frequent:

"Not all Christian fundamentalists should be told to wake up, some of them can be useful"
[Insert sarcastic-but-not-really atheist and other religion-bashing slurs here]
*guffaws*


"Not all Racist Black People should be told learn to accept things they can't help, some of them can be useful"
[Insert sarcastic-but-not-really white-people bashing slurs here]
*guffaws*

"Not all Corporal Punishment fundies should stop abusing their kids, some of them can be useful"
[Insert sarcastic-but-not-really people-who-take-alternative-methods-to-spanking bashing slurs here]
*guffaws*


Yeah not nice at all, in fact I just might be banned quicker than I can say "prejudice".

If none of you see that it's really something to think about here then *shrug* nothing else to say. I'm not coming for an argument or a fight, just to answer MB's question and drop a line of feelings now that I've calmed down, and that be it.

[Winterbourne]

Not to belittle your feelings, Jemm, which are valid, but both parties on the religion/atheism debate get nasty and thoughtless, and both sides' moderates get the shaft from the other side.

There are bad feelings, and this is understandable, but the comments comparing atheists to racists and abusive parents are not appreciated.

[Jemm]

I was not comparing it in that respect but you are right it may have come off as that. If so apologies, but it is not what I meant however. I only mean to compare one extreme view to another even though they are unrelated specifically.

And yes it does go both ways, but on this specific board, does it go both ways? I don't see any atheist-bashing Christian fundamentalists here or on the other sites I visit either. John is the only Christian I know of besides myself, and neither of us are here posting anti-atheist threads, ever. That's why it feels one-sided. If both sides were flinging mud then I'd understand that but it's not the case. And that's acceptable to post anti-Christian threads and discussions here which is even more daunting, yet if I post an anti-atheist thread I'll be piled up, ganged up and jumped upon. Here I feel like not just the minority but constantly jeered at for just being who I am, and accused of being stupid and naive for having my beliefs, constantly mocked, laughed at, generalized and indirectly hated. Just because I believe in God. I have not done anything to anyone to deserve this and I'm tired of sitting idly by and taking the bashing and beating: I have to stand for something. So again apologies if my comparison came off as bitter and frustrated but I do not mean to compare it in that respect at all. I hope I'm a bit better understood now.

[JimCampbell]

Muh ... must ... resist ...

Nah, fuck it:

"Hey, buddy! We're Christians and we didn't like what you said."
I said, "Then forgive me."

No matter what the time of day, there's always time for Bill Hicks.

Cheers!

Jim