You probably already know about the Holy Land Experience, an evangelical theme park in Orlando. Looks like it might get some competition.
A $150 million theme park called Bible Park USA is being planned for Rutherford County, Tennessee, outside of Nashville. Roughly the same size as Dollywood, the theme park is being welcomed by Chamber of Commerce types, but local residents aren’t so sure.
Well, our little Jesus theme park area in our town is just losing money. So, I hope that they don’t put all their chickens in that basket!
I thought this was the Holy Land 2.0, one of my favorite little-known Washington, D.C. attractions.
what kind of rides do they have at Bible Park? the Lucifer?? “you slowly ascend to the top of the Lucifer and are then cast down into the lake of fire” hmmm… that might sell. I have never seen a Bible based theme park do well.. what will they do for the Jewish people?.. Torah town?
I am reminded of a book of short stories by a man named George Saunders called “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline”–a satiric piece about a dysfunctional theme park based on the American Civil War. The park is slowly going broke and has been plagued by high-profile lawsuits regarding a ghost family. One involves a teenage male who regrettably falls in love with 16-year-old girl ghost only to discover to his horror that she is supernatural and not human. His heart broken, he launches into a severe depression. Then the lawyers take hold of it.
I wonder if a woman found herself pregnant with the Son of God at Bible Park USA if she would try to sue the theme park for unlawful impregnation rather than rejoicing that she was the new Virgin Mary.