Ethics

Satire Becomes Business

By Ed Brayton

I like this guy, Joshua Ritter. He set up a website, The Post-Rapture Post, originally as a satire. He offered to send letters on behalf of those who are raptured to their relatives who were clearly evil sinners because they were left behind. But then people started actually signing up for the service.

At least some people think so -- those willing to pay Witter to be their post-apocalyptic postman, delivering cards and letters to their non-believing friends, relatives and neighbors who will be left behind when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

About 70 people have paid the Orlando man about $5 apiece to get their messages to those doomed to face the plagues, pestilence and darkness of Armageddon.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 23, 2009 (boomark / email).