Spamming the Gospel Post-Rapture? Click HERE to Bring Up Full Post

From raptureletters.com, HAT TIP to Twisty Faster of I Blame the Patriarchy, Sept. 5, 2007:

Rapture.com [sic] explains its free service this way:

After the rapture, there will be a lot of speculation as to why millions of people have just disappeared. Unfortunately, after the rapture, only non believers will be left to come up with answers. You probably have family and friends that you have witnessed to and they just won’t listen. After the rapture they probably will, but who will tell them?

We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place, and you and I have been taken to heaven.

Here’s an excerpt from the actual letter:

This may come as a shock to you, but the one who sent you this has been taken up to heaven.

While this service is free, its contract is incapable of being enforced. Those with both standing to sue and a cause of action would have been raptured, outside the subject matter and personal jurisdiction of any court with enforcement or judgment power. And then you'd be likely to have the bad fortune of getting a non-Christian judge, essentially by definition.

I am indeed curious about those who would maintain the servers upon the triggering event - I guess some non-raptured Jewish or atheist or Catholic (i.e. idolatrous) post-apocalyptic tech support. At least the owners of the site did not have the audacity to charge money for this Eternal Spam, though I cannot help but imagine that a database of those seeking to spam their loved-ones during the early years of the Apocalypse would be of IMMENSE value to those who are currently soliciting money from that same group.

My only frustration with this story is technical. Raptureletters.com (which, I suspect, Twisty mislabeled) cannot be accessed from Wandering Wi-Fi at Caribou due to its "inappropriate content." Since Wandering Wi-Fi is free, I cannot complain too much, though it was an inducement for me to come to Caribou this morning. I am prepared to believe that raptureletters.com may be judged inappropriate by some but it's difficult for me to see why when other religious messages including apocalyptic religious messages are fully accessible. But again, I remain free to take my business elsewhere, of course.