Ark Encounters Latest Attempt to Avoid Paying Citys Safety Fee? Rejected.

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3. I take no pleasure from any of this because I know the area is economically depressed

and this boondoggle will make it far worse until somebody seizes it and auctions it off to a sleaze who turns it into a casino.

I spent part of last night watching videos taken of Heritage USA, Bakker's massive SC paradise/theme park for the pious. It's amazing to see what's become of it in 25 years. Part of it is suburban tract housing, part of it is a convention center, part of it is high rise vacation condos (secular) and most of it has just been left to decay, which it is doing on fast forward.

I have to think both these places suffer from the same malady, that of appealing to too narrow a slice of the public: the conspicuously and aggressively Christian, the people bucking for sainthood, smug expressions pasted on, that the rest of us want nothing to do with. Had he not stuck piety signs all over the place and had he been wise enough to turn one of the lecture halls, er, chapels into a beer garden and dance hall, the place would have been a howling success as a resort.

A sanitized heaven in a world full of sinners is just never going to sell all that well.