Cross-posted at The Left Anchor
My brother, whom I love dearly despite his conservatism and his religious worldview (for the record, I'm an agnostic leaning toward atheism, whereas he is a devout Christian), showed me this website, saying, "Some people will do anything to make a buck." And I think he's right. The name of the site is "You've Been Left Behind," and the service they offer is to retain certain personal letters of their clients, which are to be released six days after the Rapture. They offer this service for the low price of only $40 a year.
More - regrettably - below the fold...
Here are the details:
We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system.
We give you 150mb of encrypted storage that can be sent to 12 possible email addresses, in Box #1. You up load any documents and choose which documents go to who. You can edit these documents at any time and change the addresses they will be sent to as needed. Box #1 is for your personal private letters to your closest lost friends and relatives.
We give you another 100mb. of unencrypted storage that can be sent to up to 50 email addresses, in Box #2. You can edit the documents and the addresses any time. Box #2 is for more generic documents to lost family & friends.
Think about that. They have only five members who are designated to determine when the Rapture has occured. If three of those members fail to log in for one week, then that triggers the site's doomsday response. Three people. God forbid one of of them gets sick and two get caught in a blackout or go camping. If the system goes off, the point seems to be that your loved ones' inboxes will be flooded with emails you've written in advance to instruct them on how to get through the Apocalypse.
If the Apocalypse really occurred, would any of us need our loved ones, already taken to Heaven, to try and convince us of the reality of God? And why do they have to wait until after the Rapture to send these messages? I mean, if someone sends me a bunch of voodoo garbage about what's going to happen when the world ends and how best to save my soul from eternal damnation, I can assure you that in the event the mouth of Hell opens up and we all start vomiting sulfur, I'll look that email up even if they sent it ahead of time. But more likely, in the event of the Apocalypse, I probably won't be checking my email at all. Moreover, if I had to take a guess, I'd guess that six days after the rapture, most communication systems won't be working. I'm more likely to be screaming and dodging demonic beings from the sky than I am to be sitting at my computer.
They claim the site is "By Christians, For Christians." My ass! No true Christian would ever be this greedy and cynical even if many of the leaders are. If I were the creator of YouveBeenLeftBehind.com, I'd be more concerned with how I was going to get my own ass out of hell.