So it happened one afternoon that I was relaxing with a companion and enjoying the fruits of a full cable package when we came upon an astonishing documentary about the lives of Ferret Enthusiasts. The documentary in question mainly focused upon the intricate costumes these enthusiasts design for their weaselly urine be-stenched life partners and the trials and tribulations undergone by those daring enough to enter into the nation's largest competitive Ferret Show, but in and amongst this information was lodged a fascinating tidbit regarding a belief in a sub-realm of Heaven where one's dead pets go to wait for their owners souls to ascend. This is the eponymous Rainbow Bridge.
As a critical thinker, this concept raises many questions. Such as, is there any criteria for the allowance of these animals under the rainbow bridge? Do bad dogs, evil ferrets, malicious macaws, and horses that kicked their owners to death all reside along side the Just and Virtuous Pets? (aside: how did those butterflies get in? Don't tell me those were someone's pets, or that they had any moral concept whatsoever) Are goats or black cats allowed at all, being as they are the emissaries of Satan? Or is there a counterpart to the Rainbow Bridge located at the entrance to Hell? And what of those who's pets follow the doctorines of God above but themselves live lives of base sinfulness? Do they descend into Hell pulling their holy pets down from the rainbow bridge with them to the torments of Hell? Like many of the appendices of the afterlife, this Rainbow Bridge looks to be at the very least, an administrative nightmare for some poor low level bureaucratic Elohim.
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