Soulsouls on subreddit Christianity lost a pet and was heartbroken that they weren’t together the moment it happened. Soulsouls never got to say goodbye and was further tormented by people telling them that animals don’t go to heaven. That got the Queer God Squad thinking that pets are SUPER important in the lives of LGBTQ+ people.
So we wanted to offer some assurance to queer pet lovers. In addition to sharing the Norse-inspired story of the Rainbow Bridge (where our pet companions are set to playfully and happily wait for us until our time and then we can all enter paradise together), I also say this to soulsouls: God is love and love would have no reason to exclude our pets.
I once heard a theologian say heaven wouldn’t be heaven if it possessed any misery. Her point was that if our pets are required for our heavenly experience, then surely they’ll be with us. St. Francis preached to animals. Why bother if it would have no impact? None of us really knows what’s beyond the veil, but we can trust it’s good.
I have no reason to doubt that pets cross the “rainbow bridge”. If there’s a heaven for any of us, why would it exclude any of God’s creatures? If you choose to believe in heaven, you are just as free to believe your dog is waiting for you there, tail wagging, certain you’ll come home as you always did. And when it’s your time, your pet companion won’t have experienced it as anything more troubling than you leaving for work to come home later.
