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The Weird Phenomenon of Jesus Theme Parks

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Located just north of Universal Orlando is the now closed Holy Land Experience. It's the most prominent of what I would consider to be Christian theme parks, exploiting Jesus as a theme. Today, we look at these various parks, covering their history and motivations, seeing just how crazy they can become.

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20 Comments

@F0rtuneLT 4 years ago Pinned

"youll feel like youre walking where jesus walked"
trust me chris the last thing in Florida is god

@tapioca2k 1 year ago

19:37 saying the shows are "well executed" over footage of Jesus being crucified was diabolical

@donnyyario1726 4 years ago

Imagine you were a little kid and your parents surprise you saying we're going to Orlando and they bring you here 😭

@NinthShinigami 4 years ago

Love how you expand your content beyond just Disney and Universal, really shows that theme park enthusiast side of you. Keep it up man! 💯

@MegaManTheComicDub 4 years ago

The “And, of course, in the spirit of the Bible: Ziplines” line made me laugh more than it probably should have

@JakeRanney 3 years ago

Ken Ham saw the "Time Masheen" scene from Idiocracy and said "Hey, what if I made that real?"

@LeetandGreets 4 years ago

As a Notre Dame grad, we were taught that Christian theme parks were rather inauthentic, and to use our spiritual outreach energy on something more authentic. That being said, I’d love to see a Prince of Egypt dark ride someday.

@darinblass 4 years ago

You skipped over what was the biggest Christian-themed attraction built in the US, Heritage USA, in the suburbs of Charlotte. It was imagined and built by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker as a Christian Disneyland, replete with a castle, and home to their broadcasting network. For ten or fifteen years it was a major destination. To really cover this topic in depth, I feel like Heritage USA needs to be included in the discussion. It's rise and fall is worth a video on it's own, honestly.

@McHeisenburger 4 years ago

Absolutely disgusted by the lack of holy rollercoasters. Excellent video, 10/10.

@OtisSpunkmeyerLovesJesus 4 years ago

Subscribed for Disney Parks videos, stayed for creative, diverse content like this

@gezz5904 4 years ago

I’ve been to the Holy Land Experience, one time as a kid. I’m a Christian, and it was really quite a fun experience- aside from the very rude staff. The staff were surprisingly unkind.

@lilsebastian2209 4 years ago (edited)

As someone who went to tierra Santa in buenos aires, I can certificate that is a weird place. Tierra Santa opened after disney made a sort of temporary Disneyland themed Disney store in buenos aires, it was a success so the catholic guys took the idea of a theme park (at that time the catholic community was lead by who is now the pope).
I think it looks cheap because it was, the land where it was built is surrounded by the local airport and a container park. You can get the idea.
Also, the tickets are really cheap going up to U$D 5

@thedevilgoose 4 years ago

Driving past the Holy Land Experience on the way to Universal or Disney, me and my family were always curious what lied within.
We made jokes and essentially assumed it would be like Tierra Santa or something along those lines.
To be honest, it looks to be one of the tamest ones mentioned here.
In fact, I could picture myself walking around and enjoying the atmosphere.

@GTNover 4 years ago

This is definitely a channel that will blow up soon. It's just the most solid theme park opinion content out there.

@doooooooom 4 years ago

When you ask your parents to go to Disney World and they say we have Disney World at home

@wil.d_sage 4 years ago

I used to live next to the Creation Museum and it was pretty wild. I do know people who weren’t Christian would go and you could interact with real animals, like snakes and stuff. Still it was a crazy place, especially with the whole dinosaur with humans thing.

@goyangiyt 4 years ago

Wonder if Jesus would be flipping tables in the souvenir shops if he visited 😂

@vitalyvolkov1618 3 years ago

As an atheist interested in religion as well as popular culture, I would LOVE to visit any of these, especially the creation museum. The role of religion in society had always fascinated me. I wouldn't engage in arguments with staff and visitors or anything like this.

P. S. "Mechanical Jesus" sounds as a name of a some obscure rock band. Love it!

@MayaMaya-tj7kw 3 years ago

As a latina, I can tell you that the weirdness of tierra santa is pretty normal. Latin America is weird with Christianity. We have little baby Jesus dolls made of plaster that people sometimes put clothes on them, like a Mexican national soccer team uniform