Thursday, January 05, 2006

Pat Has a Busy Day

But there's more!

The Guardian reports that "a consortium of Christian groups, led by [drum roll] the television evangelist Pat Robertson [cymbal crash, trumpet fanfare]" is negotiating a free lease of land by the Sea of Galilee on which they will erect a "biblical theme park."

The Guardian describes the plan for the park as follows:

The site of the centre, covering nearly 50 hectares (125 acres) and provisionally called the Galilee World Heritage Park, would be north-east of the Mount of the Beatitudes where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount, and Capernaum which was described as the town of Jesus in the Bible. It would feature a garden and nature park, an auditorium, a Holy Land exhibition, outdoor amphitheatres, information centre and a media studio.

Is there any good news in this? Only that Israelis may harbor enough suspicion of Robertson's motives (i.e. to convert Jews so that Jesus can come back) to nix the project before it's final. It's a question of whether they want the extra tourism more than they want to avoid having a theme park full of people who've come to see the Transfiguration hologram on Monday and pass out tracts to Israeli Jews on Tuesday.

If it does go up, we just hope that the style is not on the order of Golgotha Fun Park.

1 comment:

CDW said...

There's an episode the of The Simpsons in which Flanders erects a Biblical theme park in memory of Maude.