As hilarious as this is…I hope they’re not actually taking money from these people.  Stupid people have enough problems without unscrupulous people swindling them.

Why not?It’s cheap comfort for those who are convinced the rapture is coming. I note that:People defend religious faith because of the comfort it supposedly brings.$110 is cheaper than 10 years of tithes/collections/etc.

I can’t wait for the raptureMaybe then we can get this civil rights thing going.
facetious

The blaspheming requirement……seems a bit over-the-top hilarious.

If the problem is “unscrupulous people swindling them.”then shouldn’t something be done about the churches and ministers who fill their heads with this piffle in the first place–and take LOTS more money from them than this?  There’s a sucker born every minute, and I can’t think why only ministers should get the benefit.

I’m sure that they would follow throughif the rapture actually happened.

agreedI’d be more concerned about ripping them off if it weren’t for the fact that so many of them have been annoying and rude to me, accusing me of being a “Satan Worshiper” sacrificing small animals and molesting children, due to my Pagan beliefs. I say go ahead and rip the intolerant basterds off!

What I’m saying is that this is exactly as wrong as churches who bleed their followers dryHowever, I do not believe that “something should be done about” them and most certainly did not suggest such a thing.  If the first amendment doesn’t protect even the most obvious of charlatans, it doesn’t protect anybody.  

I seriously doubtThat this company has the people and facilities all ready to go.  And that’s disregarding completely the fact that they are essentially selling panic about a completely fictional event.

Yes, but…The people who might actually pay for such an absurd service are probably already giving large portions of their income to churches.  They’re not going to stop doing that because they know Muffy is going to be taken care of when they go all Kirk Cameron and disappear with Jesus.  This is just another form of robbery they’re going to suffer for the crimes of being undereducated and afraid.

I am moved…by the brilliance of this enterprise.

What does the first amendment have to do with it?Fraud is not protected speech, granted.  But if preaching the Rapture to the faithful is not fraud for a minister, how can it be fraud for anyone else?

Oh my!P.T. Barnum would have been jealous that he hadn’t thought of it first!

Start a business to watch out for their queer kids left behindKER-CHING!

HAHA you said piffleI thought only my little-old-lady mom said piffle.

It’s too late.The rapture has already happened, eons ago, and all we have been left with are the dregs of X-tianity.  

Are you ignorant of what robbery is or just making a false accusation as hyperbole?Robbery is, according to my dictionary, “the felonious taking of personal property from someone using force or the threat of force.” Unless you are about to provide evidence that this company is using force or the threat of force to sign up clients, I suggest that you retract your false and scurrilous accusation.
As I pointed out earlier, there are a lot bigger drains on the finances of people who seriously believe in the rapture than this. If you have energy to make multiple blog posts, I suggest that you surf over to blogs frequented by such people and attempt to convince them of the error of their ways.
Best of luck with that.

What the hell..That’s what I said when I read this, and it’s funny. Hilarious, LW-”when they go all Kirk Cameron” on everyone I’m sure a lot of people will try to cash in on the Mayan 2012 craze as well, like my best friend was saying on that note about Y2K craze.  

It’s no different than any other type of insurance policyThis is Rapture Insurance.  You disappear in a flash, along with 144,000 other supposedly super-virtuous souls and someone takes care of your 14 year old cat.  Twenty-Five pet owners, who seriously believe they will be taken in the Rapture (not yet legally defined – and not likely to ever be legally defined, btw) pay the $110 (25 x 110  = $2,750).  You haven’t deceived anyone – the crackpot preachers did that.  You just provided the business solution to a highly questionable and very unlikely scenario – sort of like volcano insurance in Florida that only covers lava flows.
It’s funny, if you think about it.
And judging from the number of bumper stickers I see around here, proclaiming “In case of Rapture, this car will be driverless,” plenty of potential buyers (pigeons is another word for them).
Someone, besides the crackpot preachers, who I’d suspect pass the collection plate with regularity, might as well profit from this craze of stupidity.

OMFG! (Oh My F*cking GoldenRetriever)!!!

Another business opportunity…

And judging from the number of bumper stickers I see around here, proclaiming “In case of Rapture, this car will be driverless,” plenty of potential buyers (pigeons is another word for them).

I could buy up all the slightly used cars, especially from the little old ladies who only drove them to church on Sundays, and resell them to the rest of heathendom.
I wonder if I would have to get a salvation title for them?

Isn’t it irresponsible for them to drive?After all, those driverless cars/buses/planes could kill people which would make those drivers caught up in the rapture guilty of negligent homicide.  Frankly, if they don’t care they’d be responsible for any rapture induced deaths that’d probably make it murder 2 which has got to be inconsistent with that pesky commandment against killing.  I think all of those who believe in the rapture should be true to G-d’s word and avoid operating any vehicles or heavy machinery from now on.

I think you are right!Our Food and Drug Administration should require labeling on the bibles of these Evangelical sects that states “Driving a vehicle, or operating heavy machinery during a Rapture may cause extreme danger to others, and should be avoided at all costs.
That’s exactly why they should sell their cars to me…
Also, here’s a what if? situation…what if a saved woman is pregnant, but her unborn child is not?  Isn’t that a problem?

Yes, the Department of Motor Vehicles, FAA and Teamsters should be restricted to giving only licenses to drive, fly or run machinery to athiests.

Okay…Swindle, defraud, cheat.  Better for ya?

The First Amendment: It’s more than just speech!Free exercise of religion is also in the 1st.

I’m also kind of disturbed…By this:  ”If you have energy to make multiple blog posts, I suggest that you surf over to blogs frequented by such people and attempt to convince them of the error of their ways.”
It sort of implies that if I don’t agree with you, I’m not welcome to express my views here.  That’s probably not what you intended, but it is the implication.

Rob-verb (used with object)
1. to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
2. to deprive (someone) of some right or something legally due: They robbed her of her inheritance.
3. to plunder or rifle (a house, shop, etc.).
4. to deprive of something unjustly or injuriously: The team was robbed of a home run hitter when the umpire called it a foul ball. The shock robbed him of his speech.
5. Mining. to remove ore or coal from (a pillar).
I would say that 2 and 4 are close enough, as well.

CORRECTThe law of common-law contract is in accord with you here, Phil.  The definition of fraud in a contractual setting has nothing to do with the apparent silliness of any particular bargain (indeed, the American legal tradition has, as a matter of principle, been extremely wary of passing judgment upon the wisdom of contracting parties’ aims).  Rather, fraud requires a present intent, at the time one purportedly enters an agreement, not to perform one’s obligations thereunder.
The obligations are clearly conditional in nature (i.e., we only care for pets should the Rapture occur), and nothing (yet) suggests that the organization intends not to perform on these obligations should the condition manifest.  :-D