Man behind 'Rapture pets' rescue admits it's a hoax

[cbayer]

Hilarious.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-03-21/rapture-pet-rescue-business-hoax/53691320/1

By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service

he owner of a business who claimed he would provide atheist rescuers for Christians' pets left behind in the Rapture now says his service was an elaborate hoax and never had any clients.

Bart Centre, who lives in New Hampshire, came clean after the state Insurance Department delivered a subpoena because he appeared to be engaged in "unauthorized business of insurance" through his Eternal Earth-Bound Pets business.

"Eternal Earth-Bound Pets employs no paid rescuers," Bart Centre wrote in a blog post on March 16. "It has no clients. It has never issued a service certificate. It has accepted no service contract applications nor received any payments — not a single dollar — in the almost three years of its existence."

Centre's business was reported widely by Religion News Service, NPR, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, CBS News, the BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Huffington Post and other media outlets in the past year.

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[rexcat]

1. One can make several conclusions from this...

1. End timers don't really think the end is near and they aren't as stupid as they appear;
2. End timers don't care about their pets;
3. End timers think their pets are going with them;
4. End timers are disingenuous.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. 4. End times don't really think.

I suspect they never bothered to consider Muffy or Mr. Paws.

[Kalidurga]

4. I think you nailed it.

They probably think their pets can take care of themselves or Jesus will make provisions for them cause he provides all donchaknow.

[Starboard Tack]

5. It's simpler than that

They don't believe that animals have souls.

[dmallind]

6. That still leaves #2

Soulless animals still starve.

[LARED]

9. 5. Endtimers

can figure out a hoax just like the rest of us.

[rexcat]

10. Not really...

they believe in the literal interpretation of the bible so it disqualifies them from being reasonable, sentient beings.

[dmallind]

3. Well there's a surprise.

I wonder if he had any enquiries though. People apparently have tried to get directions to Landover Baptist services after all.

[NV Whino]

7. Surely this is the Onion

The Insurance Department went after him? Really?

[rexcat]

8. Not the Onion...

this guy was highlighted last year in the national news when the one gentleman predicted that the rapture was going to occur last year, twice and, to everyone's surprise nothing happened. Some stuff just isn't made up!