Jim Bakker’s Christian amusement park is now a post-apocalyptic ghost town

[kpete]

Jim Bakker’s Christian amusement park is now a post-apocalyptic ghost town






http://io9.com/5882369/jim-bakkers-christian-amusement-park-is-now-a-post+apocalyptic-ghost-town

[xmas74]

1. I love abandoned places like this.

I'd love to sneak in and take pics sometime. Will I? Probably not.

[spanone]

2. they need to add to their mission statement...'but only as long as it's profitable'

[Stratetalker]

3. Wow

kpete, you should forward these photos to the Kentucky governor's office. They are cutting education in order to provide tax breaks to something over there that is really simular.........sobering wake up call

[southernyankeebelle]

4. That is a great idea. Then again they may already know.

[arcane1]

12. Ah yes, the Noah's Ark thing

Great idea!!!

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Add another one to "Defunct Amusement Parks".

There should be one near you:
http://www.defunctparks.com/

I grew up in the heyday of Idora Park in Youngstown. Now just an abandoned memory.

[Arugula Latte]

6. I had relatives who lived a few blocks from Idora Park.

I LOVED going there when we'd visit them in the early 70s - early 80s.

[Motown_Johnny]

7. I guess they should have prayed harder

That must be it

[LiberalEsto]

8. Wow! Were they all Raptured?

This is amusing.

[Cleita]

9. What an observation!

Hollywood? Here's your next location set for your next disaster, post apocalyptic movie, maybe a script about what happens if there is a Rapture.

[C_U_L8R]

10. curious choice of words....

"the ol swimmin' hole evolution"

apparently evolution does exist...
if there's a buck in it

[Initech]

11. That water slide looks fun.

[GodlessBiker]

13. What do you know, just like Jim Bakker's brain.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. Watch that documentary about Tammy Faye bakker... it shows how Jerry Falwell tricked them out

of their empire. Crook cheating crooks.

[SomethingFishy]

15. How exactly does building a water slide

give "honor and glory" to Jesus?

[oldhippydude]

19. perhaps

baptismal dunking stuff?

[MrScorpio]

16. As far as evangelical preachers went, Bakker wasn't really one of the bad ones

Unfortunately, he crossed paths with Jerry Falwell who fucked him and Tammy Faye big time.

Check out The Eyes of Tammy Faye

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233687/

[Initech]

20. Falwell was one evil asshole.

[Raine]

25. I'll never forget seeing that ugly slug Falwell going down that water-slide.

[thelordofhell]

17. Video----Part I

[thelordofhell]

18. Part II

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[snagglepuss]

26. I'm trying to understand the mindset of the couple

who went there and were married by Bakker. Where is that couple now? That is not to say that the wedding ois the only strange thing/ The idea of such a park is weird. THis would would make a great John Carpenter movie.

[thelordofhell]

28. I'm thinking more Scooby-Doo

"Old Man Bakker!!"

"Yeees, and I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those damn kids and that dog!!"

[hunter]

21. Squatting ought to be the law of the land.

Keep the place up, live there for free, after a few years the place is yours.

[xfundy]

22. I have relatives who 'invested' in this park.

I think their whole church did.

Nowadays they're wishing GW was back.

Stupid then, stupid now.

I must have been adopted.

[nanabugg]

23. Just think, some homeless families could be living there. nt

[LiberalFighter]

24. Did they pay taxes on the place?

Are they still paying taxes or has the local govt taken control of the place?

[pstokely]

27. I think the moonies now the land

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