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Website Allows "Raptured" To E-Mail Their Friends

By Howard M. Friedman

Today's Christian Post reports on a new website, YouveBeenLeftBehind.com. The site, designed for those who believe that the Rapture will physically lift them to heaven, allows subscribers to send pre-written e-mails to up to 62 people six days after the Rapture. The site sends the messages when least three of its five staff members fail to log in for six consecutive days. The site also allows the storage of encrypted financial documents that can be sent to up to 12 e-mail addresses and unencrypted documents that can be sent to up to 50 addresses. The website explains: "The unsaved will be 'left behind' on earth to go through the "tribulation period" after the "Rapture".... Imagine how taken back they will be by the millions of missing Christians and devastation at the rapture. They will know it was true and that they have blown it. There will be a small window of time where they might be reached for the Kingdom of God. We have made it possible for you to send them a letter of love and a plea to receive Christ one last time."

According to the Christian Post article, the service has a legal explanation for part of its service: "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. So, basically the Government of the Antichrist gets your stuff, unless you make it available in another way."

Full post as published by Religion Clause on June 08, 2008 (boomark / email).