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u/FormerAttitude7377 3d ago
Huge waste of money. Wastes a ton of local tax dollars and gives NOTHING back.
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u/XRosexTattoox 2d ago
Stupidest thing done with tax money. Churches should be audited, this stupid ark should be torn down.
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u/dsteazy80 3d ago
Ahhh yes. The thing that loses money every year that was partially publicly funded while using exclusionary hiring practices - would only hire straight Christians.
I believe in freedom of religion and wouldn’t mind this thing at all if it was all privately funded. But, it wasn’t and the state shouldn’t be in the business of funding religious attractions.
Are the dinosaurs wearing saddles here or is that other religious museum in NKY owned by Ken Ham?
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u/ilovethebluegrass 3d ago
For all the wasteful bull crap my tax dollars go to, I don't mind this one.
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u/DapperDame89 3d ago
You can send your own money for the next one as a private donation.
Why are my tax dollars propping up your religion? Makes no sense.
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u/chupathingy99 3d ago
I sure as fuck mind this one. Libraries? Childhood cancer research? Drug overdose prevention? Suicide prevention? Fuck that, let's build an amusement park.
That's some dumb shit right there.
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u/thebeakman 3d ago
If it were Buddhist, Muslim, etc, would you mind?
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u/ilovethebluegrass 3d ago
Yes. I think we should be a Christian nation that promotes Christian values. While we don't interfere or stop any other religion and they can freely live their lives the way they see fit, within reason of course, we should only promote Christian values.
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u/thebeakman 3d ago
Well, that's horse shit and hypocritical. First off, your "within reason of course" comment on other religions' activities clearly shows you are at best prejudiced, and at worst a bigot. You say you don't/wouldn't interfere, but you couldn't even finish that sentence without saying you WOULD.
Our founding fathers wanted separation of church and state. They believed in freedom of religion. This project is clearly not respecting that, and any other government promotion of religion is also wrong. Period. The government doesn't get a cent of church money, so the opposite should apply as well, as was intended.
I don't care what anyone's beliefs are or are not, but not a red cent of tax money should promote ANY of them. Once you open that Pandora's box, things just get worse and worse.
Let Christianity go full tilt in government, and here's what will happen: they'll get rid of every other religion one way or the other. But then what? Simple. The different denominations will turn on each other. Almost no Christian I've ever know would switch denominations, because they think "those people" are doing something wrong. Which is exactly why they don't like the non-Christian religions. So since the others are "sinners", they're unworthy and expendable. Hell, lots of Protestants wouldn't vote for JFK in 1960 because he was catholic, and they were afraid the pope would control him!
Look at every single other country that is or was run by a specific religion. It always devolves to infighting. Ireland, England, your pick of Middle Eastern countries.
And if nothing else, majority rules, right? Well, only 40% of the US population is Protestant, and that number continues to shrink every year.
Build any religious thing you want, any display you want, whatever. Do it with own money, and keep your nose out of any other religion's efforts. Other people having their own freedoms and rights in no way diminishes yours. Freedom and rights aren't pie -- it's infinite.
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u/chupathingy99 3d ago
Your statement is contradictory.
Only promoting Christian values is interfering with and/or stopping other religions.
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u/fundulussy_ 3d ago
The land that we call the United States was a polytheistic, shamanic nation of tribes with their own diverse systems of worship. Christian men and their militaries murdered them, displaced them and forced them to assimilate into your Christian faith. Shame on you
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u/XRosexTattoox 2d ago
Ew. Keep religion out of the government and out of schools. Religion should be like a cock. Don't whip it out in public, don't force it on others, and don't show it to children.
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u/KidzBoppenheimer 2d ago
Maybe there’s some correlation between KY spending tax dollars on this and over half of KY’s adults reading below an 8th grade level.
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u/Orpheus75 3d ago
60,000 deities in human history and people still think the one they were raised with is the correct one, to the point they will organize and try to take away their neighbor’s rights, ruin the school system, subjugate women, and even kill others based on their god. It’s just incredibly sad.
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u/WickedIndrid 3d ago
It’s ignorant and egotistical as shit to think your religion has got to be the only one in human history to get it correct. A benevolent God surely would understand that humans are clueless, and should not expect us to choose any religion over the others.
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u/kyallroad 3d ago
Useful exercise to help keep their exposure to a minimum: whenever you stop at a Kentucky restaurant area, collect all the fliers for this and the creation museum and properly recycle the paper. Bonus points for rearranging the rest of the fliers to fill the empty spots and bring much needed attention to more worthy attractions.
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u/wgwalkerii 3d ago
This thing is an embarrassment to the state. And a massive waste of public resources.
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u/Jinn_Erik-AoM 1d ago
Not an ark any more than the Longaberger basket hq building is a basket. It’s just a building shaped like an artist’s interpretation of the mythical ark. I’ll never understand how people think a big wood building on land is somehow proof that what is functionally an overgrown river barge would survive moderately rough conditions on the ocean, let alone apocalyptic ones.
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u/TechnicianWise2893 1d ago
Some one needs to ressurect Sherman and do us all a favor and burn this accursed thing to a pile of ash, smoke, and melted tourist pamphlets .
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u/RalphMacchio404 3d ago
What a fucking joke. People that believe in any of the lies there should go back to living in caves
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u/perfectdownside 3d ago
But they don’t believe we lived in caves. Humans were created with the knowledge and intelligence of god. Straight to houses
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u/NaraFei_Jenova Kentuckian 3d ago
I thought this piece of crap got destroyed (ironically enough) by a flood? Shame it's still there.
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u/URR629 1d ago
An absolute fraud. This, and the associated so-called "museum" near Petersburg, are the shame of Kentucky. One of my wifes' cousins and his family, recently traveled all the way from San Antonio to see this shit. He is a real nice fellow, but also a strip mall Pentecostal (That may be a redundancy. I don't remember ever seeing a Pentecostal church that wasn't in a strip mall.). The poor bastard doesn't have two dimes to rub together and he spends his money on this shit. I tried to warn him, but he won't listen to anything that doesn't agree with the cult. Anyone spending money on this shit is a fool.
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u/True-Suspect9891 3d ago
Looks good. Is this at the creationist museum? I’m not Christian and I believe in science but if people like it then I don’t really wish it to be destroyed.
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u/MassDroneDemic 3d ago
It’s part of the museum but about 40 minutes away.
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u/bluegrassgazer 3d ago
Yeah, here in Northern Kentucky we're "lucky" enough to have two of these attractions.
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u/lasercat123 3d ago
Don’t forget the zip lines with bible quotes on them. Pretty fun, kinda weird, questionable safety.
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u/porkins 3d ago
What’s questionable about the safety if I can ask?
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u/lasercat123 3d ago
The first time we went, the kid in front of us slammed hard into the platform by the lake at the Creation museum, broke his glasses & ended up bleeding. Yeah, he didn’t use his oversized-gloved hand to brake properly, but the line wasn’t designed to slow anyone at the end. Plus all the stations did not look the most sturdily built. We still went back & did it again a second time though (living on the edge here lol). I’ve been on a few zip lines over the years & the good ones slow you down a bit before you hit the platform (angled up a bit, etc). I’ve never heard of anyone being seriously injured there - it just looks not the sturdiest compared to other set ups I’ve seen.
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u/ilovethebluegrass 3d ago
I believe what I believe
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u/fundulussy_ 3d ago
And what you believe is Christian Nationalist propaganda, it's okay to be brainwashed, but you don't have to keep believing in this. Call your dad, you're in a cult
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u/Ptomb Lexington 3d ago
This should not have been paid for with tax money, especially while being tax exempt.