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Atheism Good for Business? Why I Love the United States.
One thing about people in the United States: even though we’re knee-deep in a depression, with bankruptcy cases to the right of us and the left of us, we’re looking hard for the next business niche that promises brisk business.
On the one hand, it’s made me a little nervous that Costco has been selling lots of survival food (did everyone get the memo but me?) to people who are concerned that our just-in-time inventory system is especially bad at handling disruptions.
But a recent news article told me that we would, as a country, go down swinging, and maybe even survive.
This story takes a moment for the set-up, but it’s worth the wait.
See, the vast majority of folks in the United States are Christians of some flavor or another, according to the CIA Factbook. And Christians are either fairly much like each other in their beliefs (Catholics tend to believe in, well, Doctrine, right?) or very different from one another in their beliefs.
Remember, when people came to the United States, there were some places established to permit freedom to worship Jehovah in a particular way, and those places tended to have folks who all believed in similar ways.
Other places in the United States were settled by folks who had very little in the way of possessions, except their family Bible, and who didn’t have a lot of ministers or priests with ‘em, and religion in those areas developed in ways that were sometimes different (Snake Handlers are a relatively small percentage of Christians in the United States today, for instance) from mainstream Churches.
Putting it another way, there is a wide divergence of belief among Christians in the United States today.
Some believe, for instance, that folks will be lifted bodily into heaven, and that it will happen very soon.
That is a belief that has been a part of Christian belief for as long as Christians have existed; lately it’s been called “The Rapture”.
Many Christians work on the principle that it’ll sneak up on us like a thief in the night, and we’ll be called to Judgment at a point that we never expected. Because a lot of generations expected the Second Coming any day now, and some of those were disappointed.
But now a new industry has been established to serve the needs of a sub-population of Christians who believe that The Rapture is coming, and you ought not buy any long-playing albums, because you might be wasting your money!
That industry? Pet care by atheists, for Christians who expect to be bodily lifted up in the near future. After all, if Christians are going to be lifted up and away, their pets might stick around. And atheists, obviously, aren’t going to be going home, because it’s not their home! So they’ll be around to take care of Fido, or Fluffy!
You gotta love the United States; this could not happen in China.
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