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.

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JesusFreak

May 10th, 2011
8:04 pm

@Thomas, you are so very right. In fact, the Bible warns us to not be predicting the day and hour of our Savior’s return, He says no one will know. That is what differentiates us from those who do not follow God’s Word. Jesus died for all of us, including the atheists. It is their choice to reject God. They say there is no God? In the event that they are wrong, they have so much more to lose than us. What will we have lost? We lived a life free of chains and self-centeredness, serving our communities in the name of Jesus, and worked as though unto God and not men (Col. 3:23), trustworthy and humble. Nothing lost if we die and that’s the end of it. Atheists, on the other hand, serve themselves and have morals that shift according to their particular situations, in other words they serve the god of moral relativism. I do believe that we are not here on this earth by accident and for no reason whatsoever. We will all find out because we will all die. Nothing random about creation and our purpose in life. So blessed to have found the Truth, the Way and the Life.

T.Rex

May 10th, 2011
8:17 pm

How Noah got a pair of Apatosaurus’ on that ark is pure genius.

M

May 10th, 2011
8:38 pm

If only the Christians ACTUALLY served their communities as Jesus (if he ever existed) would have.

shrimp po' boy

May 10th, 2011
8:47 pm

“if you think logically about it….an athiest has to believe in God so he can say he doesn’t believe He’s there!” -mezzamorphis @ 19:51

That’s not logical at all! Maybe you are confusing us atheists with satanists; they are the ones who logically have to believe in “God” because they believe in “Satan”. “God” and “Satan” are characters occupying opposite sides of the same coin. For atheists, there simply is no coin.

M

May 10th, 2011
8:50 pm

Haha…yes. I don’t believe in unicorns.

OMG I SECRETLY BELIEVE IN UNICORNS BECAUSE I SAY I DON’T BELIEVE THEY’RE THERE!

lamonte

May 10th, 2011
8:53 pm

sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell

Atlanta Man

May 10th, 2011
8:55 pm

@ Thomas – God did not take care of the animals in the flood! As you said, he asked for TWO of each! I bet there were more than two of each in the woods or at peoples homes. So, all but one family was happy!

vince

May 10th, 2011
8:55 pm

Here’s what I don’t get:

I don’t make fun of atheists because of their beliefs. I don’t try to change their minds.
I don’t believe what Hindus, Buddhists or Muslims believe either….but I respect their right to believe what they want.

Why do atheists seem so determined to make fun of the beliefs of others? That’s the part I don’t get. Why not just respect someone else’s beliefs and let them think what they want?

M

May 10th, 2011
8:58 pm

Vince, you can believe anything you want. Promise.

We just reserve the right to get pissed when you try to legislate your beliefs. Like in gay marriage. Or demanding that school textbooks contain intelligent design. Or even that idiot in Congress who claimed (on the record) that global warming had to be a hoax because God promised Noah he’d never flood the world again.

That level of idiocy has to be opposed wherever it pops up so that our society as a whole becomes a better one.