God has abandoned the Holy Land!
On the front page of the July 20,
2016 edition of the Orlando Sentinel is an article entitled “Holy Land will sell
off Items amid financial troubles”. I wonder, why don’t the employees and even TBN
honchos who still own the park pray away the debt? Christians always insist that God listens to,
and answers, all prayers…then quickly add
the caveat that maybe “God’s answer is no”. But why would the biblical God
ignore any appeal to keep Holy Land financially lucrative, especially when
the whole purpose of the park is to lend legitimacy to the claim that the Bible
is the word of God, that He is the one true heavenly father of Jesus and the actual
universe-creating deity? Either the Holy Land promotes the wrong god, or He doesn’t exist.
Begging for dollars
While it may be presumptive to
claim God has forsaken his flock at the Disneyesque biblical theme park in
Florida’s capital for slightly tacky, money-fleecing pseudo-entertainment
venues, the Sentinel reports the Holy Land is drowning in a sea of red ink. And
it’s getting worse year by year.
Jesus and the Holy Land...both are bleeding to death.
One would think Christians, who get hard ons over watching a mock flogging and execution, would flock to the place by the
millions and money would never be an issue…on the debit side, that is.
The wisdom of the Profits...uh, Prophets.
The park is being forced to sell
off gaudy furniture, costumes, ornate statues, even a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
(I think in the Holy Land Experience version, Jesus arrives in Jerusalem on a
bike, not an ass.) And TBN is also closing retail stores selling cheap Holy Land
trinkets in Tennessee and California. In the coming months, I suspect they'll have to further auction off anything that's not nailed down. So don't worry, Jesus on the cross is safe for now.
Where the hell did all our money go?
But reading between the lines it’s
apparent that, with the death of Jan Crouch last May, the big-haired, gasping gargoyle who
was the theme park’s major financial backer, the Holy Land just can’t stay on
its feet no matter what they do. There is only so much bullshit you can force
on people before they reject it. Just ask the former Soviet Union.
The rat hole near the mouse hole, south of Orlando.
Paul and Jan Crouch bought the
theme park with TBN money in 2007 and propped it up with their cheesy and
tasteless telethons until 2012. But even they had to finally admit the park was
just a huge vacuum cleaner that sucked away all their money.
Paul Crouch signals his feelings on further financial backing for the Holy Land Experience
So they left it up to God and Jesus to keep
it open. In Their infinite wisdom, They had this to say...
...To you too, Paul...and Jan.
