If you believe in the Rapture and you’re a pet owner, Bart Centre may have the answer to your prayers.

Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that the retired real estate executive in New Hampshire has started the “Eternal Earth-Bound Pets” business that will pair left-behind pooches and felines with atheists who don’t think the Rapture will ever happen.

“If you love your pets, I can’t understand how you could not consider this,” he said.

But the magazine notes that everyone isn’t crazy about the idea.

Said Todd Strandberg, founder of the Web site raptureready.com: “A lot of persons are concerned about their pets, but I don’t know if they should necessarily trust atheists to take care of them.”

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