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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Riding the pseudoscientific wave

We all know that stupidity sells, especially if it is stupidity with an aura of piety—take a look at Ken Ham's creation science museum or Kent Hovind's Dinosaur Adventure Land, or the attempt to gussy up a zoo with creationism. Now here's a whole raft of comparable suggestions, all certain to be just as successful.

  • The Museum of Inferior People: Today, many white heterosexual Christians in America are confused. They know they're better than everyone else, but by exactly how much?
  • The Divine Invention, Innovation and Industry Institute: Did you know that what many intellectuals or so-called "thinking people" consider marvels of science are, in truth, Marvels of God?
  • Ripley's Believe It or Suffer Eternal Damnation! Museum: Ripley's Entertainment, Inc., owner of the world famous Believe it or Not! Museums and the most trusted name in the presentation and exhibition of hard-to-believe facts, is lending its authority and time-honored credibility to Biblical miracles.
  • Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ Studios: Unlike the secular thrills offered by (Jewish-controlled) Universal and MGM studios, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ Studios lets true believers experience the divine adventure of the Messiah's last days.

OK, maybe the first one would be a little awkward—most people, at least, are uncomfortable with having their racism on open display—but the others sound like guaranteed moneymakers.

(via Rox Populi)


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Comments:
#33053: — 07/28  at  08:50 AM
Montana's getting a creation museum, too. We're always trying to keep up with the Joneses in the more populated states.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2004/12/10/build/state/25-dino-museum.inc

Rrawr!



#33055: — 07/28  at  09:12 AM
The Museum of Inferior People would be quite a schizophrenic place. While white hetrosexual Christians to see themselves as holding a chosen position of god's pantheon of rabble, they see themselves as perpetually persecuted and discriminated against.

Perhaps the title of the place could be The Museum of Inferior People who Satanically believe they are Really Superior.



#33076: pough — 07/28  at  11:47 AM
I'm hoping one of these christian museums will have an Ezekiel 23 wing. That book/chapter rocks! I remember way back when my cousin was away at bible college. What hip christians would do is send letters and append the location of key bible passages to the end, to encourage and educate. I appended "Ezekiel 23:20" to the end of mine. My cousin's classmates were excited because it seemed as though his wayward cousin was moving back toward the light. A reading of the passage in question might have helped them know better.

You can get mugs, t-shirts and thongs with that passage at Landover Baptist!



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