A Web site is offering devout Christians a mode of communication from the beyond — by letting them e-mail unbelievers when the second coming takes place.
YouveBeenLeftBehind.com promises “one last opportunity to reach your lost family and friends for Christ” by sending them a series of e-mails and documents if the rapture should occur.
For an annual fee of US$40, customers can send messages to their loved ones to convince them to believe in God. The site suggests preparing messages that would prove useful to those who remain on earth, which are then fired off when the second coming of Jesus happens.
The Web site says the event would mean that “there will be a small window of time where they [non-believers] might be reached for the kingdom of God.”
The Web site, based in Massachusetts, is run by a team of Christians who must log on every day to indicate that the rapture has not yet taken place. If enough of them fail to log in, the system assumes that the second coming is nigh and sends out messages from all its subscribers.
“The people on my team are Christians who expect to be raptured,” said Mark Heard, the site’s creator. “They must continually log in to the system. The team is spread out as far apart in the US as is possible to prevent against more than one member being taken out by, attack, natural disaster, or epidemic.”
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