SleeplessInMunich
Jun 4 2008, 8:59 pm
Wow, this looks like a fun place to bring the kids. 40 attractions based on the bible.
Roll up, roll up, have a go at being crucified or throw a sinner into a burning pit of hell
Sit on Noah's Ark wihile the rest of the world perishes. All good fun in the name of god!
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If you ever fancied lunch in the Tower of Babel, visiting an "original size" Noah's Ark or a multimedia depiction of the final battle between Good and Evil, you may not have long to wait.
Under plans announced by a group of Swiss evangelical Christians and reported by the German press on Wednesday, Genesis Park, a theme park based on the Bible, will open at a yet to be chosen site in Germany by 2012.
It will group some 40 attractions over an area the size of 70 football pitches encompassing all areas of the Christian story, according to the organisers' website.
Full story here
eurovol
Jun 4 2008, 9:21 pm
Heathens! Commercializing God, what will they think of next?
Timmeh
Jun 4 2008, 9:22 pm
Can I upgrade the original size Noahs Ark to a mega and get extra large fries and drink?
Mariposa
Jun 4 2008, 9:27 pm
How odd to pick Germany for something like this? Wouldn't it fit much better into a country that is more Christian=
Heidelberg's government is ... kinda opposed to it (they want to build it there, tentatively).
"Wouldn't agree with the city's status as a science/R&D place" and so on. And of course there's no space for it anyway. The planners want Heidelberg, or somewhere nearby, for the large amounts of American tourists.
Btw, the funny part... newspaper cites that the biggest such park, in Florida, has around half a million visitors per year. This one would need 600,000 to just break even.
eurovol
Jun 4 2008, 9:32 pm
The one in Florida is a flop and benefits from neighboring attractions that are overcrowded in order to survive. I even think they had to update it to make it less preachy and there was some controversy over the daily crucifixions.
Well, they could put it at the other end of the Rhine-Neckar area for the leech effect. Holiday Park in Haßloch has around 1.2 million visitors per year, and there's still some space around there in the middle of nowhere
Mariposa
Jun 4 2008, 9:40 pm
QUOTE (kato @ Jun 4 2008, 10:30 pm)
Heidelberg's government is ... kinda opposed to it (they want to build it there, tentatively).
"Wouldn't agree with the city's status as a science/R&D place" and so on. And of course there's no space for it anyway. The planners want Heidelberg, or somewhere nearby, for the large amounts of American tourists.
Btw, the funny part... newspaper cites that the biggest such park, in Florida, has around half a million visitors per year. This one would need 600,000 to just break even.
Oh gosh. Well, I do actually have several evangelical Christian friends there, and they're German.
Actually, there are creationists in Germany even. They're usually treated as weird cultists.
QUOTE (kato @ Jun 4 2008, 10:30 pm)
Heidelberg's government is ... kinda opposed to it (they want to build it there, tentatively).
"Wouldn't agree with the city's status as a science/R&D place" and so on. And of course there's no space for it anyway. The planners want Heidelberg, or somewhere nearby, for the large amounts of American tourists.
Well we already have a Jesus world here so maybe they could put it behind that near the zollhof place then everyone couyld go in there after & get pi**ed
QUOTE (leky @ Jun 5 2008, 8:23 am)
Well we already have a Jesus world here
Ah yes. The
Pentecostal cultists with the aggressive marketing.
Sorta funny - i always wonder what will happen to that place when the Bahnstadt quarter will be built there. After all the city already threatened to slap a enforced development order on the entire area.
William
Jun 5 2008, 8:37 am
QUOTE (SleeplessInMunich @ Jun 4 2008, 9:59 pm)
Genesis Park
anything to do with Phil Collins is evil, evil, evil.
Dodger
Jun 5 2008, 3:12 pm
Placing it in Heidelberg would have nothing to do with the huge American military contingient that is in the area, would it?
Actually the reasoning for Heidelberg was because there is a lot of water
James_Runner
Jun 5 2008, 3:26 pm
Time to start a list of biblical things that biblicists would (hopefully!) not place in a biblical theme park. OK, I'll start:
1. Genocide (See: the book of Judges)
2.
Lorelei
Jun 5 2008, 6:35 pm
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Visitors will be served food at the City of Enoch, a Tower of Babel panorama restaurant, an Old Testament-era desert tent, and a mock-up of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus -- also the location for the main shopping mall.
Woo, several shopping malls. I'll definitely visit. Just as long as I can buy a biblically-themed credit-card holder and purse.
Mariposa
Jun 5 2008, 8:17 pm
QUOTE (James_Runner @ Jun 5 2008, 4:26 pm)
Time to start a list of biblical things that biblicists would (hopefully!) not place in a biblical theme park. OK, I'll start:
1. Genocide (See: the book of Judges)
2. Stonings
luvlein
Jun 5 2008, 8:30 pm
Abraham preparing to gut his own son on some stone slab cause God told him to.
Lavender Rain
Jun 5 2008, 8:43 pm
QUOTE (James_Runner @ Jun 5 2008, 4:26 pm)
Time to start a list of biblical things that biblicists would (hopefully!) not place in a biblical theme park. OK, I'll start:
1. Genocide (See: the book of Judges)
2.
1. Genocide
2. Stonings
3. Serpents
Exodus 7: For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents:
This biblical quote imitates life to closely.
Dafydd
Jun 5 2008, 8:53 pm
I particularly like the 'Jump for Jesus' trampolines.
eurovol
Jun 5 2008, 9:23 pm
QUOTE (leky @ Jun 5 2008, 4:17 pm)
Actually the reasoning for Heidelberg was because there is a lot of water
If it gets turned into wine, I am there.
QUOTE (Mariposa @ Jun 5 2008, 9:17 pm)
1. Genocide (See: the book of Judges)
2. Stonings
Yeah, number 1 sucks, but getting stoned has a certain draw to it.
I reckon they should do a Norse theme park... drinking, telling wild stories, eating meat straight off the bone, getting frisky with the opposite sex, dancing on tables...
Oh wait!
That's a biergarten.
Rob1989
Jun 5 2008, 9:39 pm
QUOTE (James_Runner @ Jun 5 2008, 4:26 pm)
Time to start a list of biblical things that biblicists would (hopefully!) not place in a biblical theme park. OK, I'll start:
1. Genocide (See: the book of Judges)
2. Stonings
3. Serpents
4. Foreskin Dowries*
* 1 Samuel 18:22,27
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_...&chapter=18
Let's not forget the good bits too:
Orgies (bastards stole the idea from The Norse anyway)
Buggery (a little something for the Catholics)
Beheadings (well, it's a laugh, innit?)
Donkey rides
lilplatinum
Jun 6 2008, 9:01 am
I'll be hanging out at the bars and titty clubs in Soddom and Gemmorah land, just turn right at the pillar of salt.
SleeplessInMunich
Jun 6 2008, 9:35 am
Donkey rides
For some reason that just cracked me up.
QUOTE (leky @ Jun 5 2008, 4:17 pm)
Actually the reasoning for Heidelberg was because there is a lot of water
QUOTE (Sin @ Jun 5 2008, 10:42 pm)
Let's not forget the good bits too:
Buggery (a little something for the Catholics)
Aah buggery on the high seas!
lilplatinum
Jun 6 2008, 9:58 am
QUOTE (eurovol @ Jun 5 2008, 10:23 pm)
Yeah, number 1 sucks, but getting stoned has a certain draw to it.
All I did was say that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!
James_Runner
Jun 6 2008, 3:23 pm
1. Genocide (See: the book of Judges)
2. Stonings
3. Serpents
4. Foreskin Dowries (1 Samuel 18:22,27)
5. Forced circumcision of adult male slaves owned by Jews (See: Genesis 17)
6.
7.
8.
lilplatinum
Jun 6 2008, 3:47 pm
6. Incestual Rape (we're all god's children, he impregnates Mary - apparently God and Josef Fritzl have alot in common)
7. Cannibalism
SleeplessInMunich
Jun 6 2008, 3:57 pm
8. Infantacide
Hey! This theme park sounds like fun. When does it open?
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