I’m going through a bunch of old files…newspaper and magazine clippings from a time when paper was the default means of communicating news and information…and running across some oddities and memories of a past life. Let me bore the rest of you with some of it today.

This was in my “Rightwing Mindset” folder. I remember driving past this on my way to Walt Disney World. Basically all you could see from the Interstate was the large faux Roman Colosseum, where I assume they held daily reenactments of Christians being thrown to the lions, or some such. Not sure how they would have enacted the lion’s part of the show.

I never went, not even out of curiosity. Too late now. 2001 – 2020. They couldn’t make it work and the COVID epidemic apparently finished it off. And now it’s gone to its heavenly reward. Here’s the thing…’Christian’ is big word that compasses a Lot of belief, any random quarter of which is probably not completely on board with the other three.

There’s an old Dutch joke about how one Dutchman is a theologian, two Dutchmen are a church, and three Dutchmen are a schism. And of course, the best God joke ever by Emo Phillips. The point being you are not going to bring in the crowds you think you are, just by branding your attraction as a Christian thing.

Especially if it’s Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.