Ethics

The Ultimate "I Told You So"

By Ed Brayton

I'm so jealous of the people who came up with this brilliant way to bilk the ignorant and the credulous. For a mere $40 a year, You'veBeenLeftBehind.com promises to send emails on behalf of the faithful to up to 62 people they think will miss the bus on rapture day. How will they know when the rapture takes place, since the Bible doesn't mention heaven having a good wi-fi connection? Simple:

We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).