Holy Roller Novocaine

Has anyone else heard about this God theme park that's supposed to be being built in Yorkshire? It is genius. According to an article in Wednesdays Guardian, mad woman Andrea Webster has already blown £100k of her own cash on the project and throughout the course of Holy Week is expecting a million christians to donate £144 each.

Now excuse my cynisism, but this idea is bollocks. Considering that only 50% of the nation understand the Easter story, this has to be one of the worst times to plan such a farce. Perhaps a better time for this park would have been the dark ages, when the excitement of the proposed holy roller coaster based on the story of Jonah would come from the fact that you would be relying on god to save you.

Much like the drafting in of celebreties such as Bono to promote Christianity is going to have no effect on the youth of Britain, the idea that this park will make the Bible exciting and more appealing to youngsters is a joke. This is simply cynical way of prying more money out of the misguided segment of the country to fill some neo-capitalists pockets.

In my mind a real Christian, rather than blowing £100k on her ego, would invest the money in something that's going to help someone, like the NHS, or a cyanide pill.