Jesus is voting for Bush! "Holy Land"? WTF!?

[mr blur]

Just watching the BBC Panaroma program on the election in Orlando. Anyway, the reporter goes to "The Holy Land" - it's a fucking THEME PARK - 10 o'clock every morning "Jesus" carries a cross through the street and gets crucified. I mean, I'm not a Christian, but is this fuckin' sick, or what? Morons standing round eating hot dogs and making videos while the guy gets tortured and killed? And you can buy the t-shirt! The souvenir hat! There's a weird sickness in your country which can turn ANYTHING into a money-spinning family day out.

"Jesus", of course, is a white-bread hippy who looks like he should be playing rhythm guitar in Ted Nugent's band. Visually as far as you could get from a Jewish/Aramaic man of around 33AD - but of course you couldn't have him looking like a foreigner, could you? And, of course, he's voting for Bush.

[olddem43]

1. Is this a joke or is there really a Holyland Theme park?

[Syncronaut Seven]

6. Here Ya Go!

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/getaways/tampa/sfl-holyland,0,2905874.story?coll=sfla-travel-tampa

[olddem43]

24. Sounds like a couple of Jewish guys making money from the

anti Semites. Great!

[nodehopper]

18. well...

http://www.theholylandexperience.com/about/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Jesus's message was the important thing

I think, not how He died. But it seems that many "Christians"-the kind that frequent this park, for example-seem to dwell on his death rather than his life.

[greyfox]

21. His death

and subsequent resurrection is what we "dwell" on... the price He paid for our sin.

But, I do agree --- this theme park stuff is a REAL sad joke. Pitiful. If it came out for Kerry, it would still be sick. Thank God, it didn't!

[nytemare]

3. It is for real

I live about a mile from the place, and in the area behind the park right off of an interstate 4 exit ramp, there is a huge Bush sign. BUT, there is a bridge that goes over the Interstate there with a big "ORLANDO" sign over the road, and I heard some of the Kerry volunteers saying they are going to drape a sign over the bridge for Kerry.

I really don't think the place makes too much business.

[Ima]

4. That is just sick

[mr blur]

5. On the same program,

the organiser of the Repub campaign in Orlando describes the Chimp as "the most liberal candidate ever to stand for President". The stupidity makes you want to weep, really.

[nytemare]

8. my nieces were volunteering for Bush

While I have been working for Kerry. I suppose they have been doing phone calls, but 2 days ago both of them "volunteered" and each got a 50 dollar travelers check.

[Cat Atomic]

7. Do the rides have cool names, like "Jonah's Wild Ride"?

You know- shit like that? How about costumed mascots? Anything with Snow White and the 12 Apostles... or whatever they were?

[nytemare]

9. Orlando has so many of these wanna be parks

I haven't really paid attention. I never see that many cars at the place. Gatorland makes more business.

[charlie]

12. Do YOU have what it takes

to take the Abraham Challenge? Step right up... and bring the kids!

[nytemare]

16. with all the hurricanes

they had Noah's Ark out there for a while. But the waters subsided.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. That's just sick!

I really, really, really HATE this public display of religion. It makes me ill.

[Sporadicus]

11. What Would Jesus Think

about a theme park where His stand-in is crucified on a daily basis?

[Tony_Illinois]

13. Check out these games they sell ... they're a riot

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[charlie]

14. "Additionally..."

"...the authentically designed Oasis Palms Café offers a tasty Middle-Eastern meal to add flavor to your experience."

http://www.theholylandexperience.com/about/index.html

[camero]

15. It figures

Fundies have a kind of strange obsession with his death but don't bother to look at his life. It's almost as if they get off on it.

[Tony_Illinois]

17. Reminds me of the wackos that care more about the fetus than

live babies.

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[Cleita]

19. Well, as a Gallilean, isn't it possible he's not an American

citizen and can't vote? I mean if you are going to buy into this fantastical nonsense, you'd think Jesus being perfect and all wouldn't break the law and vote illegally. Would he?

[charlie]

20. Hungry?

[Cleita]

23. I hope that hot dog doesn't have any pork in it. n/t

[wovenpaint]

26. Where's the falafal?

[Lorien]

22. Was the program on cable?

I was filmed by the BBC last week for a program that sounded like that one, but not in The Holy Land theme park, lol!

[mr blur]

25. No, just went out live...

about an hour ago.
More info here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3951881.stm

[Philostopher]

27. It's 'Dinosaurland'

for religious basket-cases who get all their God off television*.

Wonder sometimes what the ultimate result of commodifying their spiritual beliefs will be? It would be worth popping some popcorn to watch, if they didn't scare me so badly.


* disclaimer so those who bother to read the bible and think about their religious beliefs don't mistake what I'm saying. If you're gettin' God off the TV, you need more help than God can give.

[Justpat]

28. Maybe we should start our own version of a religious theme park.

We could call it: "Bible Study for Bush". In it, Bush could be
seen going to remedial religious study.

He would be forced to learn by heart the Sermon on the Mount. He
could learn all over again the teachings of Jesus in which His
followers are exhorted to pray in private, give alms to the poor
instead of the filthy rich, be kind to widows instead of creating
them with an unjust war of his own making.

He might be forced to learn a few spiritual princilples such as
the idea that when a person claims to speak for God they are in
fact lost to God's love as they have placed themselves above Him.

I think such a theme park would be a blast and would be endless fun.
Imagine George having to learn that a spiritual leader does not
legislate his version of goodness on his people. For his final
exam he could deal with the spiritual and literary lessons from
the past that have shown how following a strict religious dogma
does not make them safe, or holy - it only offers them a religious
prison for their unchecked desires.

[NuttyFluffers]

29. once again reality proves it is stranger than fiction.

stuff like this you can't make up.

[Tuttle]

30. Lead us not

into Connecticut
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/holy/



This place is really run down and funky - really great in a bizarre folk-art way: I got lost in this city once (Waterbury, CT) and wound up at the main gate (padlocked shut) in the middle of a spring afternoon - there was a limo parked there, full of smoke, probably a couple street girls inside. Mary Magdelan and company. Very surreal.

I know this is a different Holy Land but thought I'd post this stuff anyhow! Must be seen to be believed!

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