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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 12:57 PM Feb 2023

After the apocalypse - CATS (I kinda hope so)




The Rev. Sheryl Ruthven and a few dozen followers left Washington state three years ago, hoping to find a place where they could live in peace and quietly wait out the apocalypse.

Along the way, they hoped to rescue as many cats as possible.

Those cats, according to Ruthven’s writings and interviews with former followers, are divine creatures that will carry the 144,000 souls mentioned in the book of Revelation.

But the group’s unorthodox beliefs and controversial history followed it all the way across the country. In public, Ruthven’s followers, who run a nonprofit cat shelter known as Eva’s Eden, describe themselves as a peaceful group devoted to Mother Nature and living in harmony. They foster dozens of kittens in their homes and host cat adoption events in their air-conditioned mobile cat playground.

“Our call has always been to help ease suffering, and we are Eva’s Eden … bringing love to the world, one cat at a time,” they wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post.

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/apocalypse-meow-how-a-cult-that-believes-cats-are-divine-beings-ended-up-in-tennessee/article_78fc2367-5596-5a7a-ad8e-edae8c83a594.html
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After the apocalypse - CATS (I kinda hope so) (Original Post) packman Feb 2023 OP
They may be nutty, Bayard Feb 2023 #1
Their rescuing will develop their souls for their apocalypse more than any beliefs their material Karadeniz Feb 2023 #2
Whoa! That did not go where I expected--loved the cat rescue part, then detoured to CULT LAND, USA! Timeflyer Feb 2023 #3

Karadeniz

(22,612 posts)
2. Their rescuing will develop their souls for their apocalypse more than any beliefs their material
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 01:20 PM
Feb 2023

brains latch onto.

Timeflyer

(2,066 posts)
3. Whoa! That did not go where I expected--loved the cat rescue part, then detoured to CULT LAND, USA!
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 02:27 PM
Feb 2023

Hope they at least encouraged spaying and neutering of all pets, because there aren't enough homes for all of them.

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