Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, December 13, 2010 8:10:18 PM
When someone mocks Jesus Christ, calls it art, and it is supported by taxpayer dollars, that's just fine by many who are now complaining about a project to build a "Noah's Ark" attraction. Some of these people support using taxpayer money to teach New Age and Secular Humanist and Islamic religious concepts.
Paul Thornton reports on the LATimes.com opinion blog.
One can only hope the bulk of whatever taxes this absurd tourist attraction generates go toward improving science education to mitigate the simple-mindedness this inflicts on Kentucky children.
Why does building this inflict simple-mindedness?
But if it's jobs even at the expense of science that desperate governors crave, they ought to be equal-opportunity panderers.
Where is the cost to science in all of this?
I would encourage him to steer clear of the Bible's widely disseminated creation story.
Uh, the story of Noah isn't a creation story.
Instead, my vote goes to the Church of Scientology, whose Earth-insemination myth-- that Galactic emperor Xenu flew billions of his people in DC-8-like spacecraft to our planet and blew them up in volcanoes -- lends itself nicely to flashy amusement park entertainment.
It just might. But these are not cultural equivalents.
"bob murrell" at December 07, 2010 at 05:10 PM had a problem. He says the ark was bigger than will be represented:
Its a shame that they are going to build the Noah's Ark in ky. and they are using the wrong 18 inch cubit . Noah Ark was 515 feet long not 450.moses wrote the first 5 books of the bible and he was educated in the royal Egyptian cubit that is 20.6 inch means it was 86 ft. wide and fifty ft. high
"realist" at December 08, 2010 at 06:24 AM:
there are enough government programs wasting taxpayers money to have you build a replica of a fake "boat" that never existed.
How would anyone know for sure that the ark never existed?
consider the billions of animals in the world that have evolved over the billions of years the earth has been in existence, no one structure made out of wood could a: float, or b: house all of them considering the bio-diversity required to maintain a gene pool.
This person hasn't even bothered to read what these people actually believe. I'm not saying that they're right, but this critic doesn't address their contentions, instead knocking down strawmen.
"Michael Simons" at December 08, 2010 at 07:53 AM:
Can I get some government funds to build an amusement park which acts out all the stories in the bible about God committing or ordering violent acts of murder and rape?
Notice that this person does not cite chapter and verse, let alone wholistic context. Wonder why?
"Robinson Walsh" at December 08, 2010 at 09:47 AM:
There was no Noah.
How does this person know this for sure?
Just for the record, I don’t want taxpayer funds spent on private projects. But the skeptics should be happy to see this project built with private funds so they can use it to point out exactly how the story of Noah is impossible, right?
Previously:
Hit and Run Bible Mockers
The Religious Right on Church and State
Time For Education to Evolve