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One of the stated aims of the AH Trust's proposed Creationist theme park is that it will provide an alternative to binge drinking for young people. David Mills ponders this in the Guardian's Comment is Free section:
Although the trust correctly identifies that there is a drinking problem endemic in the culture of young people today, to believe that by providing religion as an alternative so that youngsters will put down the White Lightning and pick up a bible, seems quite naive and out of touch.
What's more, he wonders whether the Bible is really good for young people.
To correct the wrongs of society, perhaps the theme park - using its multimedia to maximum effect - will tell the story of how Lot was prepared to give up his daughters to the Sodomites and eventually slept with them himself? Is it appropriate moral guidance to show how Abraham was going to kill his son because God ordered him to? Will it also tell the story of Cain killing his brother Abel? How will tales of rape, incest, infanticide, fratricide and mass homicide become the antidote to binge drinking and a society that watches too much sex and violence on television? Theologians would say they are not meant to be taken literally but how are they meant to be taken? Are these the kind of family models we want "our youth" to look up to?
Taking children for a ride—Comment is Free, 23rd December 2007.
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1: Posted by: Bartholomew | December 27, 2007 5:33 PM
I followed up some of your leads on this. It's all very curious:
Background to UK Creationist Theme Park Organisation
2: Posted by: Thomas | December 29, 2007 10:55 AM
Let's not forget the basic American college pastime of going to theme parks while on drugs. I can't say about elsewhere but I'd bet one in five college age person at an American theme park is on something. The more bizarre the theme park, the higher that ratio gets.
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