The Holy Land Experience in Orlando, FL

What FRESH HELL is this?

Do you get to grenade Palestinian children?

Is this a retirement community? WHAT IS IT, exactly?

Well, this is for certain: You won't see three wise men there.

I was there about 20 years ago for the camp value, but it wasn't hilarious the way I thought it would be.

My favorite moment: I was taking a pic of one of the street scenes, and at one point one of the workers (wearing an alleged period costume) realized she might get in the shot and so she quickly covered her face (we thought out of embarrassment) with a great dramatic flourish. It was almost worth the price of admission.

Otherwise, the park is boring & sedate - and the patrons seem to take it way too seriously.

I'm surprised it's still around. I thought Splendid China (which closed about 15 years ago) was more amusing. And at least that place had a good restaurant.

Jesus waving to you from the cave where he was resurrected is a cute touch. Also the “walk on water” area.

Sounds borderline blasphemous. Disrespectful at best. Can you stick your head through a plywood board painted to look like you have been crucified?

Camp.

I liked the glory hole where you can suck off the hot hunky Roman soldiers!

Well, They'll never top our states full-sized replica of Noah's Ark...paid for by Mitch McConnell with Kentucky tax dollars.

Kitschy. They play commercials for it on TBN all the time.

R 10, you forgot the most delicious bit of irony ever, concerning Noah's Ark.

Was it closed that day? There's nothing there and it's almost as realistic as dollar store artificial flowers.

It totally fucking awesome that Jesus is portrayed by a white European man with blue eyes and that it would seem that a sizable number of the park's visitors are African-American

What a nutter, r15!

Great article.

Crass and tacky AF.

Donald Trump's white trash army of suckers will love it.

There just seems to be an endless array of ways to fleece Christians of their money.

THE HOLY LAND THEME PARK - LAND OF DELUSION

Anybody in the Northeast remember the Holy Land on the hill in Waterbury, CT? If you watch the film "Wanda" (1970) on DVD, there is a scene when she is touring it and it looks tacky and rundown even before it really went to shit.

Is this the place where performers who couldn’t get hired by Disney or Universal go to work?

The map:

No Water into Wine Bar and Grill?

Does someone get crucified every day or is is every hour?

My favorite part was this

R22 - they have an eatery called The Last Snack?

Shut up and take my money!