I signed myself up for a Rapture Letter just so I'll know when it happens. [via The Gentle News] For those of you who don't know, the rapture, in a quick summary, is the supposed second coming of Jesus Christ at which time all believers will be led into heaven, whilst the non-believers will be left here on Earth to perish, fight, suffer, die, and generally have a horrible time.
What I think is the most interesting is the assumptions these people make in order to implement a system like this. One can only assume that the system works because the administrators have some method of informing it, on some pre-determined interval, that the rapture has not come. Therefore, when the system doesn't get the message, it assumes the rapture has come and sends out the email messages. Let's assume, just for one second, that Jesus will be coming to Earth again, and that the rapture will occur exactly as these people believe it wil. In order for this system to work the creators must assume that they, themselves, will not be left behind. Additionally, they assume that persons who are going to heaven after the rapture are capable of knowing those who aren't in order to provide their email addresses.
What is also interesting is this: why do they care? Let's assume they are right: the rapture is coming and they'll be saved and I'll be left here unless I believe. Why are they even willing to pay money that they could be donating to GOD for a web server, and waste time and energy that they could use to do GOD's work programming and maintaining the website, merely to inform the non-believers when it is too late for it to do any good?
