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3. I see nothing wrong with Mr. Centre's business -- he made a promise to care for the animals, and
Thu Dec 29, 2011, 07:46 AM
Dec 2011

theoretically was going to fulfill that promise after a 'rapture.' This business is called an "insurance business." When that rapture didn't come, the people who bought the service want their money back? After 10 years or so, do these same people call up their insurance companies and demand all their money back because their house didn't burn down? If not, why not? It's the same thing. Insurance agents know that most of the policies they sell will never be collected upon because the law of averages says that only a few of the insured houses will ever burn down -- the same goes for the possibility of rapture. In my mind, of course, NO ONE is ever going to be raptured, but I seem to be in the minority, and it is certainly not fraudulent of Mr. Centre to offer, for a price, to care for the left-behind pets of rapture believers. The rapture believers put their money where their mouth is for once, and now they think Mr. CENTRE has duped them? How has he duped them? HE didn't go around promising a rapture in May. Seems like the believers need to go after good old Harold Camping.

Another point -- according to Christian beliefs, lots of people get "left behind." If there had been a rapture and some of the people who thought they were going did not go, would they demand their money back from Mr. Centre? See insurance example above.

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