CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States
There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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An Atheist Moral Quandry
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During the recent non-Rapture this May, I heard a story on NPR that, as an atheist, I wasn't sure where I stood morally.
Eternal Earth-Bound Pets. This is a real company that really does provide a service for a hypothetical scenario that will never happen. For a fee of 135 dollars, with 20 dollars for each additional pet, in the eventual time that the rapture comes, this company will take care of your pets. You of course will be unable to, because you'll be raptured up to heaven. This group does not believe in God (and, to make sure there are no loopholes and they get Raptured anyway, every member of Eternal Earthbound Pets denies the existence of the Holy Spirit at least once a month, which is the only unforgivable sin-- look it up), so they'll be around to take care of your pets until the absolute end.
And I don't know what I think of this, from a moral atheist point of view. On the one hand, they're taking advantage of people's ignorance. On the other hand, unlike every other person who takes advantage of people's religious superstitions, this organization is being completely upfront about who they are and what they believe. This isn't the same as some evangelist on the air crying and pleading on air for the audience to send money, and then using that money to buy expensive cars and fuck hookers. This is an organization that says, on the chance that we're wrong and you're right, we're not going anywhere, and we promise to take care of your pets. So since they're being up front about everything, they're not hiding that they're atheists, they're not hiding what they believe in (or don't), so if someone wants to spend their money on someone that's being completely up front, then that's their business.
But there's still the fact that, up front or not, they're still taking advantage of people's ignorance, even if the person is giving the money willingly.
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with love from CRS @ 12:20 PM
1 Comments:
for the record, we do not ask our representatives to blaspheme monthly. Once at time of hiring is sufficient.
We tell our potential clients that we do not believe in the rapture, and state it on our site. We also tell them we never epect to have to execute these contracts, but are prepared to if we are proven wrong.
Unless one is so arrogant as to assume that 40 million rapture believers are mentally deficient and incapable of making any judgements, then the concept of "taking advantage of the ignorant" is erroneous.
Bart Centre
creator/co-owner Eternal Earth-Bound Pets
