Going to Heaven May 21? Atheists offer to take care of your pets

As you are doubtless aware, the Second Coming is scheduled for May 21.

Needless to say, it’s time to get your worldly affairs in order, and this includes finding a longterm pet sitter.

Heaven will look nothing like Piedmont Park, atheists say.

Heaven will look nothing like Piedmont Park, atheists say.

The neighbor or brother-in-law won’t be able to help this time. They may be going to heaven too.

Fortunately, there’s a company to turn to in these End Times of need.

Eternal Earth-Bound Pets USA will provide a loving home to pets whose masters have gone to their great reward. Rescue services are available in 26 states, and, since the company is staffed by atheists, chances are they won’t be going to that heavenly place they don’t believe exists.

The company was founded in 2009 by Bart Centre, which sounds like a San Francisco sports venue but is actually the name of a Godless person.

Since cash may soon be worthless, the $135 fee for 10 years of Rapture pet insurance seems reasonable. Additional pets cost $20, so if you’re hoarding critters like an animal shelter you may want to tap into the 401(k) early.

Centre, a retired executive for a national retailer who lives in New Hampshire, said the idea is to make money, not poke fun at Christians.

So far, he’s got 250 clients and 44 contract employees, which doesn’t sound that profitable.

Most clients hail from the Bible Belt, which holds up the moral fabric in the Southern United States. Georgia, the glistening buckle of the aforementioned region, has 16 clients and two post-Rapture pet wranglers.

Southern saints can only purchase coverage for traditional pets.Those with horses, camels, llamas and donkeys will want to quickly move to New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho or Montana to take advantage of Eternal’s expanded services.

Payment for an iguana had to be rejected because “I couldn’t get anyone to adopt it,” said Centre.

The folks that will tend to Christians’ four-legged friends are Centre’s chosen ones. They love animals and don’t love Jesus.

“These are people not likely to be Raptured under any circumstances,” Bart said in The Washington Post. “Not that we think anybody is going anywhere anyway, which we make perfectly clear on our website.”

Business isn’t exactly booming, but he does get a lot of phone calls from atheists looking for work and angry Christians who say Jesus would never make the devout leave their pets behind.

“God didn’t take care of the animals during the flood,” says Centre, who does not believe in God or Biblical floods.

The author of the heathen classic “The Atheist Camel Chronicles,” said his first tome sold well enough to warrant a sequel. “The Atheist Camel Rants Again!” will hit virtual book shelves in June, if the world lasts that long.

152 comments Add your comment

TheAntiMe

May 10th, 2011
6:35 pm

Hey, if I can’t bring my bulldog Rumple Minze to heaven with me then I’m just not going to go. Besides, I thought that all dogs go to heaven?

scrooge

May 10th, 2011
6:59 pm

dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

SaveMe

May 10th, 2011
7:00 pm

I don’t see the difference between what this company is doing and what churches (of all religions) do, they all profit from peoples fear.

I believe in all this nonsense as much as I believe a homeless guy that tells me that “God” speaks to him (isn’t that what Moses also said, lol).

This is hilarious! You just made my day.

Progressive Humanist

May 10th, 2011
7:05 pm

I was thinking of starting an insurance company (called Progressive Humanist, of course) that insured people against being skewered by unicorns and bitten in the knees by leprechauns, but this rapture scheme has millions more potential suckers, err… customers. Great business opportunity!

Bible Beater

May 10th, 2011
7:18 pm

The Bible doesn’t tell you anything other than re-used stories from other cultures when people still thought the world was flat and the Sun revolved around the Earth.

Religious nuts “interpret”the Bible and “speak” for God. How can you take religion seriously?

Noah sailed to the Antartctic to save two penguins? Sure.

Progressive Humanist

May 10th, 2011
7:22 pm

Bible Beater:

I think he used a helicopter to pick up the two kangaroos from Australia.

mark

May 10th, 2011
7:26 pm

How do i get an application? I will even water your plants.

lamonte

May 10th, 2011
7:26 pm

A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency — issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights — the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.

mezzamorphis

May 10th, 2011
7:51 pm

Well, here’s my thought…not that I can judge who will go to heaven and who won’t, but if you think logically about it….an athiest has to believe in God so he can say he doesn’t believe He’s there!
And as for someone taking care of my dogs, i’ll just take them with me after all they have been raised in a ‘Christian’ home so i’m sure they’ll go :)

lamonte

May 10th, 2011
8:02 pm

Consider that at the societal level, murder rates are far lower in secularized nations such as Japan or Sweden than they are in the much more religious United States, which also has a much greater portion of its population in prison. Even within this country, those states with the highest levels of church attendance, such as Louisiana and Mississippi, have significantly higher murder rates than far less religious states such as Vermont and Oregon.