Rapture Letters: Bug Your Atheist Heathen Friends After You're Gone

[arwalden]

I really don't know what to make of this. There's something a little UNSETTLING about the mindset of a fundamentalist who just REFUSES to be content with bugging me while they are alive. Apparently there's a bonus-round where they get to pester me in their "afterlife".

Here's a website that lets fundamentalist Christians send an email message to someone they know AFTER they have "disappeared" in the Rapture.

Not only do they get to send an email from beyond... they get to do it WEEKLY!!! Ain't technology great? (Maybe I ought to add myself to their database just to see if they use my email address for any other purpose BEFORE the actual rapture arrives.)

-- Allen

http://www.raptureletters.com/

<SNIP>
After the rapture, there will be a lot of speculation as to why millions of people have just disappeared. Unfortunately, after the rapture, only non believers will be left to come up with answers. You probably have family and friends that you have witnessed to and they just won't listen. After the rapture they probably will, but who will tell them?

We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place, and you and I have been taken to heaven.

If you wish to do something now that will help your unbelieving friends and family after the rapture, you need to add those persons email address to our database. Their names will be stored indefinitely and a letter will be sent out to each of them on the first Friday after the rapture. Then they will receive another letter every friday after that.
<SNIP>

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ME: Here's the text of the first letter you'll receive.
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http://www.raptureletters.com/letter.html

Dear Friend;

This message has been sent to you by a friend or a relative who has recently disappeared along with millions and millions of people around the world.

The reason they chose to send you this letter is because they cared about you and would like you to know the truth about where they went.

This may come as a shock to you, but the one who sent you this has been taken up to heaven.

<SNIP>

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ME: There's more, but you get the idea.
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[joeybee12]

1. Great, now I'll be getting MORE Spam e-mail...

Today, this strikes me as funny--maybe I should be more scared about these simpletons, though.

[Maeve]

2. Who's going to take care of their server when they've gone?

Do they only hire heathens to take care of this stuff? :shrug:

But then, thought doesn't really enter into it with folks like this, does it?

[joefree1]

3. Hee hee, my e-mail back

I'm glad to hear you have moved onto what is in your mind a better place. We pagans were here on earth long before you showed up and we'll be here long after you apocalyptic folk have returned to your respective heavens. We'll continue to worship the ground you once walked on.

Enjoy the clouds and the harp music.
Gods Bless,
joe

[CanuckAmok]

6. PS:

So, that means more parking spaces and more Ferraris for me, right? What the heck took you so long?

[Melsky]

4. Words fail me

one of the most idiotic things I've seen today.

[Philosophy]

5. I wrote one for [e-mail]

Since Bush* is the antichrist, the rapture should happen any day now.

Edit: No wait - apparently they are blocking that specific email address, probably because of the mistaken assumption that Bush* will be taken too. That antichrist is sure sneaky.

[PVnRT]

7. Wait a minute

Will email work after the rapture? I mean, I would think there would be significant problems with the power grid. On top of that, since we don't know when the rapture is to take place, how will it be sent? Is someone staying behind?

[arwalden]

8. I Imagine There's A "Dead-Man" Switch...

... in which a LIVING person must acknowledge to the computer that he or she is still alive---usually by typing in a password or simply by logging in.

When that key person fails to log in for more than 24 or 48 hours, then the computer will "assume" that rapture has occurred and will churn out the "so-long-suckers!" email messages.

-- Allen

Can you imagine what would happen if there's a glitch in the program and the messages get mailed out early? Or if the key-man is out sick for three days?

LOL.

[PVnRT]

9. Quite funny

The panic of a bunch of fundamentalist yahoos, thinking that the rapture has happened, and they didn't go...priceless.

If that happens, a bunch of prominent atheists should promptly disappear, adding to the confusion.

[Endangered Specie]

10. No reason to worry...

Since rapture and all them other prophecies are complete bogue bs, you wont be getting emails. And BTW how will the computer know when it is rapture time? Whose gonna stay behind and tell it? The only time they will disappear will be when they kick it and end up 2 meters under (maybe even more).

If I ran a funeral home, I would dig the hole DEEPER for fundies (like nuclear waste deep).