A new Web site is offering a miraculous service — e-mails sent to loved ones left behind on Earth after you've been swept up to heaven in the Rapture.
YouveBeenLeftBehind.com promises to alert up to 62 people exactly six days after the event that, according to the Bible, signals the beginning of Armageddon, Wired magazine's Threat Level reports.
"You've Been Left Behind gives you one last opportunity to reach your lost family and friends for Christ," the site promoting the service says.
Final e-mails from vanished subscribers will be triggered when three of the site's five Christian staffers fail to log in for six days in a row.
The site, the brainchild of Mark Heard, charges $40 a year for the service, which also includes 150 megabytes of encrypted storage space, recommended for financial information, Threat Level reports.
"In the encrypted portion of your account you can give them access to your banking, brokerage, hidden valuables and powers of attorneys," the site says.
"There won't be any bodies, so probate court will take seven years to clear your assets to your next of kin. Seven years, of course, is all the time that will be left," it explains. "So, basically the Government of the Antichrist gets your stuff, unless you make it available in another way."
According to Christian theology, after the Rapture, Satan will rule a global government that will torment doubters with seven years of Tribulation.
Heard told Threat Level that he already has paying subscribers.
I guess Mr. Mark Heard plans on being left behind if he can send those e-mails?
Or maybe (perhaps) cyber-space takes on a whole new meaning, eh ??!! ;)
Ironic that financial info is more important to share, than salvation.
Paw - couldn't resist - maybe you could go into competition with this guy - $40 (USD) a year and toss in a green card to boot...this is almost too funny for words. Can't wait to see what Groucho and DWBH think of it.
This is a real problem, just adding to the paranoia of a non-event, there is no Jesus to come back it's a myth. What this site will do is make these people rich and then the can lobby against Atheists and other non-christians and then elect some Nero-type who will push the button.
These idiots who wrote the left behind series are worst kind of fools, they are making big bucks on a myth told as reality and writing fictional accounts about mythic fables. They are writing lies about lies that are sold as truth. The Bible is myth from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 to write a fiction based on myth is nothing new, that's what the Gospels are and Acts, and the Epistles and the rest of the NT, bunk!
It's scary to think that if even 25 million Christians sign up for this "service" they will provide $1Billion in cash flow for this guy, that's a drop in the bucket in terms of the worldwide population that calls themselves Christian. This is not the kind of money we need these fanatics to have, they need to stay poor in their little church groups.
Next thing you know someone will start a Rebuild the Temple fund... maybe I'll do it, I'll rebuild the temple and ask the question, does it fit with your theology that a former Born-again Christian now Atheist would be the Anti-Christ who rebuilds the temple?
Recommended Posts
Linda Z
That is truly one of the most bizarre schemes I've ever seen!! What a hoot!
Link to comment
Share on other sites
dmiller
I guess Mr. Mark Heard plans on being left behind if he can send those e-mails?
Or maybe (perhaps) cyber-space takes on a whole new meaning, eh ??!! ;)
Ironic that financial info is more important to share, than salvation.
Ah well --- Nothing new under the sun.
(edited to fix the link)
Edited by dmillerLink to comment
Share on other sites
Seth R.
This is a real problem, just adding to the paranoia of a non-event, there is no Jesus to come back it's a myth. What this site will do is make these people rich and then the can lobby against Atheists and other non-christians and then elect some Nero-type who will push the button.
These idiots who wrote the left behind series are worst kind of fools, they are making big bucks on a myth told as reality and writing fictional accounts about mythic fables. They are writing lies about lies that are sold as truth. The Bible is myth from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 to write a fiction based on myth is nothing new, that's what the Gospels are and Acts, and the Epistles and the rest of the NT, bunk!
It's scary to think that if even 25 million Christians sign up for this "service" they will provide $1Billion in cash flow for this guy, that's a drop in the bucket in terms of the worldwide population that calls themselves Christian. This is not the kind of money we need these fanatics to have, they need to stay poor in their little church groups.
Next thing you know someone will start a Rebuild the Temple fund... maybe I'll do it, I'll rebuild the temple and ask the question, does it fit with your theology that a former Born-again Christian now Atheist would be the Anti-Christ who rebuilds the temple?
Seth
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.