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Welcome to Florida's biblical theme park
by Neva Chonin
San Fransisco Chronicle
Sunday, January 15, 2006
(Note: This column was published on SFGate on Feb. 9, 2001.)
Heaven on Earth
News: When theme parks get religion
Mother Jones
December/January 2006
City of Revelation Theme Park
According to the Mother Jones Article, this theme park is up and running and features an "authentic Jewish Wedding." If so, the website is horribly out of date.
The Holy Land Experience
According to Chonin's article, this theme park was master minded and created by park founder Marvin Rosenthal.
Chonin says:
"A few fortunate visitors might experience the added attraction of seeing authentic members of the...Jewish Defense League protesting outside the gates, sans robes and special effects. It seems the JDL suspects Rosenthal, a Baptist minister who was born Jewish and now heads the Orlando ministry Zion's Hope, hatched Holy Land as a nefarious scheme to convert Jews to evangelical Christianity."
Why do people think that taking their philosophy and religion and turning it into plastic keychains and life-sized cosumed characters is a method of 'teaching' and 'immersing people in the experience' and 'spreading the word? wht part of rollar coaster rides and cotton candy brings a person closer to god or nirvana or enlightenment or simple trust in a higher power that might lead to a kind of relaxed happiness?
I guess the jokes about the Mouse God that is workshid in Florida must be true, because the Christians are awfully determined to imitate his method reaching out and making converts (not to mention a little cash) from all over the country.
Welcome to Florida's biblical theme park
by Neva Chonin
San Fransisco Chronicle
Sunday, January 15, 2006
(Note: This column was published on SFGate on Feb. 9, 2001.)
Heaven on Earth
News: When theme parks get religion
Mother Jones
December/January 2006
City of Revelation Theme Park
According to the Mother Jones Article, this theme park is up and running and features an "authentic Jewish Wedding." If so, the website is horribly out of date.
The Holy Land Experience
According to Chonin's article, this theme park was master minded and created by park founder Marvin Rosenthal.
Chonin says:
"A few fortunate visitors might experience the added attraction of seeing authentic members of the...Jewish Defense League protesting outside the gates, sans robes and special effects. It seems the JDL suspects Rosenthal, a Baptist minister who was born Jewish and now heads the Orlando ministry Zion's Hope, hatched Holy Land as a nefarious scheme to convert Jews to evangelical Christianity."
Why do people think that taking their philosophy and religion and turning it into plastic keychains and life-sized cosumed characters is a method of 'teaching' and 'immersing people in the experience' and 'spreading the word? wht part of rollar coaster rides and cotton candy brings a person closer to god or nirvana or enlightenment or simple trust in a higher power that might lead to a kind of relaxed happiness?
I guess the jokes about the Mouse God that is workshid in Florida must be true, because the Christians are awfully determined to imitate his method reaching out and making converts (not to mention a little cash) from all over the country.
posted by A at 1:54 PM
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