Holy Land

Well, isn't this nice. Has anyone ever heard of the Holy Land Experience? It's a religious theme park in Florida. Do I have a problem with it? No. Let the religious people goto their little religious theme park. I could care less... Until, they start getting special treatment.

The Holy Land Experience is in Orlando. They are in direct competition with all of Disney's parks, Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios, Sea World, and a few of the other more obscure parks. So, do you think that Holy Land would get special treatment when they're a business who is in direct competition with two major companies? Well, of course!

Judge Cynthia MacKinnon has ruled that a company by the name of Zion's Hope does not have to pay property taxes. They have been excused from paying $786,343 worth of taxes in my state. So I have a very big reason to be pissed. I pay my fucking admission fee (no pun intended), so why can't they? Just because their theme park is based on religion, they don't have to pay taxes? This is fucking stupid. This is fucking irrational, and it is completely unfair.

Disney, the champs, and my personal favorite pays millions upon millions of dollars every year. Though, it's been theorized that since they own over 50 miles of land, they are actually their own town and are able to use loopholes to save some money. But that's beside the point. Everyone else pays property taxes. Why should this business be any different? Well, let's take a look at Zion's Hope.

First of all, I think the CEO of this company is a fan of the Matrix. But let's look at the activities of this non-profit company. The article reports that this business distributes biblical cassettes, videos, books, CDs, it publishes a religious magazine that I'm sure people subscribe to, and they broadcast a syndicated radio show. This is a fucking business. And a successful one at that. And now they have a theme park, and this fucking stupid bitch Judge has the goddamn nerve to excuse this business that in reality is no different than Amheiser Busch and Disney, from paying taxes. It's just sick. All you have to do is look at the official website for Zion's Hope and you will see that they are a business. But because their business is about religion, they get all of this tax exemption? This is bullshit.

What a scam. I mean, what else do you call it? It's a straight up scam. And Florida's government is in on it, but local state government. Obviously this Judge MacKinnon is a religious nut. I don't see how anyone with an amount of common sense could possibly unfairly give a theme park the right to not pay taxes. With the new legislation coming in this year, they would have had to pay over a million dollars. That's a million dollars in my state. But she wants to use her bench to promote religion. Could it be more obvious? It just makes me sick.

The content of a theme park is irrelevant. I don't care if it's a theme park that centers around Marvel Comics or a theme park that centers around serial killers. People who own land, and who use that land to live on or who use it as a place of business must pay property taxes. Just because this theme park that charges a $30 admission price is based around Christianity does not give it the same status as a church. Only in the eyes of an insane bitch Judge who wants to use her bench to promote her own ideas. It just makes me sick. This is why I have such a problem with religion.

Zion's Hope is a business. I don't care what your religion or belief is. All you need to do is goto their website and realize they are a business who sells all things religious. The same as Disney sells all things family. The content makes no difference. Their product makes no difference. It's a business, and they are able to unfairly save millions of dollars because their content is Christ? Where the fuck is the logic in that?

I know the answer. And the answer is that there is no logic that. It's unfair treatment and advantage to businesses that promote religion. And there is something very wrong with that. If this was an Islamic theme park, I guarentee they would not receive the same advantages. But it's Zion's Hope. And obviously, they are a very profitable business in the Christ industry. If I were religious, I'd be pissed that people were making so much money off of the death of my savior.

But it's ok. I'm not going to worry. Because every day I'm learning that the more bullshit people cause, the more they get in the end. And I wouldn't be surprised at this point if lightning were to strike Holy Land and the whole fucking place burned down over night. I would not be surprised. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some enraged taxpayer set fire to this place. Oh man, I have such a good idea. I should go there with a video camera... Oh the fun I would have. Oh my god. That would be the funniest thing I could possibly do. I just might do this. Not burn it down. I mean, I am an enraged tax payer but I'm not an arsonist. I do think it would be absolutely hilarious to go there, with a video camera and a friend to document what I see and to maybe get into a view debates. And in the end, I could start a fight and coax some religious nut into hitting me in the face. Oh, that would be good. I'm going to do this one of these days.