Did you visit The Holy Land Experience in Orlando? What did you think!

@ParasocialCatgirl

2 жыл бұрын

I know that my parents have a fridge magnet from there on the fridge back home, no idea if I was alive or not when they visited it, if it was I literally have no recollection of it (but the again I would have been like 1-3 years old if it was at a point where I was alive so yeah ofc I probably wouldn't remember anything about it lol)

@hayleywaalen2612

2 жыл бұрын

I did not go there but I saw commercials for it on TV.

@Freshmouth

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly it was more of a museum then a theme park

@ckilbarger01

2 жыл бұрын

It was a nice place for grown people to relax between theme park fun. The shows were in air conditioned buildings for the most part. The performers were fantastic.

@brrrrharrr

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't! I think I didn't really miss out :P

I went here on a youth trip. It was honestly super boring, and when Jesus rode out on a motorcycle, fully decked out in a sequin tunic, our youth pastor told us he wished he hadn’t taken us there😂

@michael-h8153

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thats a memory worth sharing. Maybe it would have been better if the children didnt know Disney world and epcot center where right across the street. Lol

@Mike_Jones281

Жыл бұрын

It looks like nothing more than a really elaborate outdoor church with, maybe, some good food. I can only imagine the illicit stuff going on behind the scenes.

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@jonathankaufold7503

Жыл бұрын

Lol now that is funny.

@Loud2013

Жыл бұрын

😬😬😬😬😬 😂🤣😭😂🤣

Imagine all the poor kids who were dragged there by their parents, being SO CLOSE to Disney World.

@tannert.2296

Жыл бұрын

Even closer to universal too😂literally in the same sightline from I4

@BoyProdigyX

Жыл бұрын

@@tannert.2296 I'd say its a sin to do to your kids, but...

@chrisccc22

Жыл бұрын

Grifted at such an early age

@BoyProdigyX

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisccc22 haha Swindled out of all that Disney brand capitalism!

@BoyProdigyX

Жыл бұрын

@@jakelittle1261 If you gotta skip one, it should't be Disney... Are you one of those people who would take your poor kids to Christland?! haha

I feel like not having a water to wine bar is a missed opportunity.

@Nygon08

3 ай бұрын

it would be the butter beer of the place🤣

@Vook

2 ай бұрын

Meh, too clever for them.

@SnowBunneh

2 ай бұрын

Ngl that sounds delicious

@MrChellejay12

Ай бұрын

Y'all funny lol

@kristinasymons

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

i grew up in orlando like 5 miles from this place. when it closed down one of my neighbors from down the road asked if he could take the giant noah’s ark animals they had on display. now you can see biblically accurate elephants and giraffes on a random residential street in orlando. i drive by them every time i need to go to the post office

@marisela7825

Жыл бұрын

Lol that is actually kind of cool! I would love a life sized Giraffe or elephant to display at my house! Lol

@So_lo_

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if you’ve ever taken 44 to get to Daytona but if you have do you know that one store on the roadside that has those huge yard statues? 😂 they have hugeee animals and miscellaneous things but that’s what I’m imagining your neighbors yard to look like 😂😂

@So_lo_

Жыл бұрын

I just looked it up real quick the place I’m talking about is called “Barberville Yard Art Emporium” I’m soo hoping you know what I’m talking about 😂😂 that’s always been a landmark that we are close to the beach. But if you take the tolls or highways you won’t have seen it 😂

@tannert.2296

Жыл бұрын

Do you by chance live in winter garden? Pretty sure I’ve seen that house before😂

@ronthornton6398

4 ай бұрын

Oh snap, I was on vacation in Florida last year and drove past those, and my brother goes "that's probably some dude named Noah and he's just really into the Ark aesthetic" lmaooooo

You know who I really feel for? The kids who were all excited because their parents were taking them to Orlando for vacation and thinking they were going to be going to Disney or Universal, then they pulled up here.

@selfishbeats

2 жыл бұрын

lol. not even tier 3.

@mjmottayaw

2 жыл бұрын

That was me ! But it was my super religious grandparents so I should have known

@level3xfactor

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing

@recoveringfatboy5660

2 жыл бұрын

Facts 😂

@ecoRfan

2 жыл бұрын

Those with brutally religious parents… parents likely named Karen and Kenneth

When we were on vacation at Disney as a kid, I remember my mom telling us "you better have fun or we'll take you to Holy Land". We were, and still are christians, and I can assure you...that was a terrifying threat 😂 I'm not sure anyone took this place seriously lol

@lizpotter8123

Жыл бұрын

I did… I actually wanted to go.

@themyofmy

Жыл бұрын

@@lizpotter8123 let me guess, mormon?

@izzymarz6788

Жыл бұрын

@@themyofmy funny but to be fair, this was a non denomination, trinity believing park

@redrasegarden

Жыл бұрын

I take it that was an easy promise to keep?

@zipporahh7948

Жыл бұрын

@@lizpotter8123 the gold paint and huge gate just tricked ur infantile brain, same thing happens to me until my mom told me what is was fr lmao

As someone who drove by Holy Land Experience frequently, my biggest question was why there was a gorilla on the roof of one of the buildings you could see from I4 The answer being the Trini-tee Miniature Golf Course was very unexpected yet hilarious

@SuperCosmicMutantSquid

Ай бұрын

Trini-Tee.... I....have nothing to say. It is a pun that has me bewildered.

@teamsteed1

Ай бұрын

​@@SuperCosmicMutantSquidSame here.

My parents finally took me to Orlando in 2005. I was so excited. The month before, I had gotten a book from my grandparents about the thrill sites in Orlando and the different places you could go. My parents got a discount to a timeshare place and we spent the entire first day there hearing these guys trying to sell us a timeshare. We went to Disney, and it was good. And then my parents started driving to Universal. Instead of Universal, we went to Holy Land Experience. Mind you, I was 7 years old and had been talking nonstop about how excited I was to ride all of the rides. We went, and there wasn't a single ride. I barely remember anything except for the children's David and Goliath attraction, who were probably paid the cheapest out of all of them. That one attraction was hilarious. They would get a big kid and a little kid to each be David and Goliath. And for Golitlath, they would do an entire skit about getting him dressed in armor. Anyways, I must have expressed a little too much amusement at that one part if the park, because my parents then used our extra day that was SUPPOSED TO BE USED TO GO TO UNIVERSAL to go BACK TO THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE. To this day, my parents swear that we went to Universal, but I have to remind them that it was Hollywood studios (MGM at the time).

@xenxander

Жыл бұрын

MGM is a Disney property.. not Universal.

@alexandrostheodorou8387

Жыл бұрын

It was way cheaper to go there, and thats why they did it and lied to you. Sorry bro.

@Bootystank99659

Жыл бұрын

I hope you’ve been able to go to universal finally

@Mr_BoozeVA

7 ай бұрын

I can imagine the horror of approaching Universal Studios, excited to spend the last day of your vacation riding your favorite movies, only to pass it and go back to the boring church sermon “theme park”

@peacelovetv95

6 ай бұрын

​@@xenxanderThat's what they're saying; they said they went to Disney but not Universal. Their parents insist they did go to Universal, but the parents are mixing up Universal with Hollywood Studios (MGM)

Driving by this on the way to Disney, my dad would always say “oh let’s go to HOLY LAND” just for us to scream as we drove by.

@theashguardian8640

Жыл бұрын

My dad did this too 😭😭😂😂

@mutterbuffin6916

Жыл бұрын

Lol omg did we all have the same dad? 🤣

@LillyP-xs5qe

Жыл бұрын

But it like a 12 hours flight , but the food is great, much safer than the USA, lovely hiking trails, middle of bird migration routes, lots of museams, I recommend Haifa, very fun city also the safari near Tel Aviv (it's in ramat gan) is really good

@spatulagirl7298

Жыл бұрын

We used to laugh hysterically every time we passed it.

@LeahRichelle

Жыл бұрын

🥲😭😂 if only it wasn't a joke and my dad didn't turn in when my mom said that. 💀💀

As a wheelchair user. We aren’t all paralysed…lmao. Honestly sometimes when people tell me to turn to god for healing. I’m very very tempted to stand up and act shocked like im healed. Bahahaha

@Tsumami__

2 жыл бұрын

If you ever do, please record it and upload it to the internet somewhere lol

@IsabelleandHerbie

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tsumami__ maybe I will

@PJay-wy5fx

2 жыл бұрын

You really should. Teach those ableists a lesson. Disabled folx have some catching up to do!

@kaycosette

2 жыл бұрын

I would love to see this

@mattwolf7698

Жыл бұрын

A lot of those stories people tell in church are BS anyway.

Went here in middle school. Had no idea it closed. The giant model of Jerusalem I thought was super cool. Parents are really religious and literally drove from the Midwest to Orlando just to go here. I was happy to just go somewhere warm. Looking back crazy to be so close to so many great parks and only go here.

@overbeb

Жыл бұрын

I'd call that borderline child abuse to bring a child to Orlando and not go to Disney or Universal. Shame on them.

@tiredanddepressed

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I figured there would be a lot of religious parents that would go there from across the country. 😂 from what I hear though from most of my friends who were raised extremely conservative it was rare to go out so a place like holy land would have been a literal godsend since they did something.

@LiamHoyo

2 ай бұрын

@@overbebDisney and universal aren’t in Orlando

@cptemilie

2 ай бұрын

@@LiamHoyo universal is

What's crazy to me, is that 20 years of my life and many trips to Florida, I had no idea this place even existed until now.

@mothmadi_

Жыл бұрын

that's strange since the sign is right next to the highway

@ThatAlleyRat

Жыл бұрын

@@mothmadi_ Exactly, that's crazy yo!

@areguapiri

10 ай бұрын

You are a smarter person by not knowing about it or experiencing it.

@It-is-me...Melsie

7 ай бұрын

Be relieved that you didn't.

@pulaski1

7 ай бұрын

@@mothmadi_ Agreed, I have only been to Orlando 4-5 times, but remember the billboard signs for HLE.

"We don't want to bash you over the head with religion and make you convert, we're just trying to cure you of Sinner Disease" sure is a statement to make.

@EmethMatthew

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly... Though that's where the mantra about "Jesus isn't a religion, he's a relationship" allows for compartmentalizing like that which makes a distinction between what you think you're doing and what others say you're doing.

@steviewondek

Жыл бұрын

Hillarious.

@awkwardcupcake3395

Жыл бұрын

When i was in college, the campus evangelicals used to pull this shit all the time. "If you knew 9/11 was gonna happen you'd try to tell everyone going into the building." Like fuck all the way off bud.

@TheKsourmoon

Жыл бұрын

@The Trashman *trying to kill jews

@Hmfirestormz

Жыл бұрын

He is not wrong though

I can’t believe their annual pass was priced at $69. Incredible.

@Darkzilla66

2 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@hicknopunk

2 жыл бұрын

No taxes either....so no sales tax?

@rdarkstorm8414

2 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@garybailey1251

2 жыл бұрын

But they passed a collection plate during each show.

@ecoRfan

2 жыл бұрын

And you wonder why so many religious clergy are so dirty…

Bruh when the lady talked about the “miracle” about the guy standing up in the wheelchair to see better… almost like she thinks everyone who uses a wheelchair uses one cause their legs are 100% broken or some 😂

Should have had: 1. Baby Moses LogFlume Ride 2. The *LAST* Supper which is basically a TopSpin 3. Resurexxxion which is a hypercoaster with enough Gforce to give you visions of the afterlife ...anyone else?

@ThePirateprincess23

2 ай бұрын

How about a Shoot-the-Chute boat ride themed around Noah's Ark.

@BlackholeProbe

23 күн бұрын

Revelations: The End Times Coaster

To me the most astounding part of this video was when she mentioned the $19.5 million dollars, turned directly to the camera, and said God wants YOU to give us that money. It was freaky to see just how easily she was able to do this with not one hint of shame. It is scary to think of just how many well-meaning people she manipulated over the years. There’s so much more I could say about this.

@wintersmelody

2 жыл бұрын

Grifters gonna grift. So gross.

@LivingTheLifeOfRiley

2 жыл бұрын

When she did that I literally went to the comments to see if anyone else was grossed out by them. They have the money but no...an elderly person who inherited millions of dollars is going to build them another completely unnecessary building. That money could go to charities that actually help people, probably something that jesus would really do. Disgusting.

@Viking_Luchador

2 жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@paxhumana2015

2 жыл бұрын

@@wintersmelody , and Atheists are the biggest grifters of them all.

@paxhumana2015

2 жыл бұрын

@@LivingTheLifeOfRiley , you know, buildings CAN provide homes for the elderly and the homeless. Moreover, there are a LOT of abandoned houses and mansions that could be renovated and that could get deserving families and individuals be put into them as well.

My grandma who was always very religious hated this park, the idea that someone dressed up and pretended to be Jesus was appalling to her. I kinda wish I got to see it in person though lol

@NathanTarantlawriter

Жыл бұрын

I don't understand how that can't be seen as anything other than poor taste, at best.

@nellieduncan8448

Жыл бұрын

@@NathanTarantlawriter in her defense she was raised in a strict catholic Portuguese household and it made her very uncomfortable to see a man covered in fake blood pretending to be Jesus 😂😂😂

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" institutions in this country, it was a shameless sham to con the gullible out of their money are avoid paying taxes

@bigwendigo2253

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely dislike the idea of this park. The tax exempt status when it’s not a church or a scientific museum, the greed, not hiring people based on their religion. It’s disgusting. The park definitely had some neat buildings/miniatures though.

@whitneyfluttershyelizabeth

Жыл бұрын

it's a mix of the crucifixion, the baptizing, and the sermon of the goldfish crackers for me. I don't see how anyone could see this as anything BUT offensive to literally everyone.

I'm just trying to imagine the kind of unhinged conversations that would've happened in the park. "What time is the next crucifixion?" "Oh, it just started." "Drat. We'll catch the next one."

My friend, little sister and I found this place terrifying as kids. The wax museum with red flashing lights and water that splashed you on the brood trail off of Jesus and the thunder noises was horrific. We were yelled at by a random old lady telling us to calm down because this really happened and the blood of Jesus isn’t scary.

@Herowebcomics

6 ай бұрын

Wow! Why would you splash people with "blood" while they are trying to watch a reenactment of Jesus' death?! That would mess up the experience!😡

As someone who’s not religious, I would never go, but as a historical reenactment/theme part nerd… I respect creating a scale replica of Jerusalem. I’m a sucker for well themed theme parks

@LillyP-xs5qe

Жыл бұрын

There is mini Israel on the way to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, it across the road from the IDF tank museam, just saying, it quite nice and no religious stuff

@alext3811

Жыл бұрын

I mean considering ITEC, who worked with Universal designed the park in part, so there would be professionalism.

@Dzante22

Жыл бұрын

It would’ve been uber cool if it wasnt just a church . A fully immersive mini Jerusalem for people who cant go to the real place . Maybe have most workers from Israel or descendants of and not white people

@brandonhicks9926

Жыл бұрын

The scale model was actually really cool, but that was the best thing about the park

@deadpilled2942

Жыл бұрын

Keely, bless you. You're now a Christian minister. Please see staff to recieve your Bible, and giant glasses

My uncle was a pastor in South Florida, and we used to go to the holy land every summer. Personally, everything he described in the park is true. I remember one summer we told my uncle we will meet them at the park later cause we were tired from the day before, but really my older cousins took me and other cousins to universal studios that's where we really had fun.

@bradsanders407

Жыл бұрын

He went multiple days in a row? Wow his poor kids.

@Jad.V2

Жыл бұрын

@@bradsanders407 Not just his kids, but the whole church. Lol.

@bradsanders407

Жыл бұрын

Ah I see. Cold but necessary

@Bismuguy

Жыл бұрын

gigachad cousins, universal is awsome

@MrCountrycuz

Жыл бұрын

Your uncle was a real sucker!

There used to be a Christian TV station I would watch as a kid called Smile of a Child. There would be adds for holy land all the time on there. They would show the Jonah and the Whale walkthrough attraction and I thought it was the coolest thing at my age. It actually made me want to go just for that. Now that I’m older, I’m glad we never went there on my family’s Orlando trips lol.

It’s weird that a religious theme park is getting torn down and being replaced by a hospital. You don’t expect things like this to happen to theme parks often.

@marcjohnson5148

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. I would think it would just continually improve. Or grow in some spiritual manner. But for a Christian based hospital / organization, to take such an experience that could be enhanced somehow, just seems pretty dark to me.

@donquique1

3 ай бұрын

It is prime real estate.

@thekydragon

3 ай бұрын

At least after all these years, something good and helpful will finally be done with that plot of land.

@viaxxl

Ай бұрын

At least it’s replaced by something actually valuable and useful

@SkogenWhisper

27 күн бұрын

It’s extremely good/cool actually

I started having strange dreams a few years ago where I’d be trapped in this weird touristy recreation of Jerusalem. My grandma (a pastor) would always be in this dream acting so excited to be there. Then the dream would always end with Jesus walking through the crowd carrying the cross and finally being crucified while tourists surrounded him taking pictures and and laughing. My grandma would being smiling and as this happened. When I told my mom about this recurring dream she informed me it wasn’t just something I imagined, and that it was a memory from when my grandma drug us here when I was 4. We saw them recreate Jesus’ crucifixion and it was such a surreal experience that it gives me nightmares almost 20 years later.

@Balrog-tf3bg

Жыл бұрын

That’s crazy. Like a weird fever dream

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@angelacollins7695

Жыл бұрын

Imagine the nightmare of the true event and what He went through for us. Yeah I can see though how that could affect such a young child without understanding of it. I survived a tornado as a young child that struck our town and our school a supposed tornado shelter decided to send us kids all running home for our lives rather than keep us there. My brother and I barely made it inside living across the street from the school when it hit us. I had nightmares for well over 20 years after.

@naniisrael1635

Жыл бұрын

Christ is black. Was that part of your dream?

@angelacollins7695

Жыл бұрын

@@naniisrael1635 no 🙂 He's Jewish of middle eastern decent. He's tanned lol. No not part if that dream. Honestly though His skin color or race doesn't matter. What matters is what He did for us. All of us no matter our race or skin tone.

Adding this before finishing the video, but funniest experience here was hearing an ambulance from outside the park right as Jesus took his last breath. All children there were laughing, all adults were battling tears and laughter. That is my only true memory of this place.

@brentgoeller8257

2 жыл бұрын

Thats funny.

@esciteach7997

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY my comment above; kids playing games, running around screaming and you are trying to focus on Jesus' painful scourge and death on the cross. . . . . .DOES NOT WORK

@esciteach7997

2 жыл бұрын

@@brentgoeller8257 funny but did not work . . . .

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@tryphineshumba1181

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

My family went to the Holy Land Experience in 2015. We mostly went to see the Scriptorium, as we attended a church with close ties to the Van Kempen family. The Scriptorium was a cool, fascinating experience, as was the scale model of Jerusalem. Pretty much everything else felt gaudy, kitschy, and cheap. We jokingly refer to it as "Jesus Mini-Golf", and I don't think the mini-golf course was even open at that point. Kind of sad to hear that it started out as a much more earnest thing that suffered from years of mismanagement.

@MoosesValley

Ай бұрын

"We jokingly refer to it as "Jesus Mini-Golf" " ... it was actually called Trini-tee Miniature Golf Course, which is also a pretty hilarious name !

I just drove past it being completely demolished the other day and seeing it half-torn down felt so surreal. Never went myself and it seems like it was a bit of a strange place, but it was always just so obviously THERE, kinda had become a staple of Orlando for me tbh, gonna miss driving past the entirety of Israel

Ahh, yes. Exactly what the kids want: a Jesus-themed park with zero rides, zero thrills, just 100% church. This entire concept is hilariously creepy.

@TheJodilicious6

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I actually feel bad that maybe some over RELIGIOUS families that hardly let their children have fun made this as a exception and the kids probably thought they would have a slight chance at some fun and was seriously disappointed

@rob.scalioni

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think you’ve watched the video, or even understood the concept. Not sure where you heard “kids” in the video. I’ve been there twice and I’m sad to see it go, as are many others, I’m sure. Nothing creepy about it, that I can guarantee you

@teddyschlong9063

Жыл бұрын

hey they sell burgers its not all bad

@frankfacts6207

Жыл бұрын

well you never heard of someone dangling 150 ft from a bible and plunging to his death now have you?

@MyLadySpeaks

Жыл бұрын

rides and thrills aren't going to get anyone to Heaven. Disney that wants to lead kids to hell with it's movies (ex: lil demon) is creepy

This reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons where Ned Flanders had his own theme park and the kids were strapped in their seats thinking they were going on a roller coaster and instead an animatronic "prophet" started preaching psalms to them--while they struggled and cried to get out 😆

@colt45604

Жыл бұрын

At least Flanders park had rides

@mackpines

Жыл бұрын

I remember that episode. It was hilarious. "Praiseland" was the park's name. People thought they were having a religious experience when they prayed at the statue of Maude; Ned's dead wife. Only to find out later they were getting high off gas fumes because of a faulty line.

Used to work in bus charters. We would get groups all the time asking about chartering a bus to go to the Holy Land Experience. I knee the name, but little about what it truly was. Thank you for sharing this and for keeping the tone serious when it would have been super easy to go negative or sarcastic.

“A Jesus quit and not even an hour later walked in Robert looking for a job” This lady had an experience every boss has had throughout history and thought it was gods miracle lol

My parents would threaten me and my siblings to go to holy land if we misbehaved during vacation. Can safely say it never happened

@Cranberries87

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@darthXreven

Жыл бұрын

really?? I always get told to go to hell and I just say hey buddy, look around, we're already in hell man..... though if I lived in Hell Michigan I could just say sign on the town already says Hell pop 1000+ lolz i'm guessing at the pop....never been there but it's one place i wanna visit just to say I've been to hell and back LMAO hey there needs to be a show, a comedy about a man and women living together call it, Hellen & Bach ugh sorry i have a lot of good ideas, trouble is most of em suck....

@uniqueaesthetics1403

Жыл бұрын

Lol!

@pegc9889

Жыл бұрын

That's really sad. I don't know if you went to Disney World, but there are tunnels underneath it where child trafficking occurs. At least the Holy Land Experience elevates Jesus.

@somethingiswrong8975

Жыл бұрын

@@pegc9889 Bruh you tripping, the tunnels are used by costumed employees to get to other locations undetected.

it always bothers me how these theme parks close only to be abandoned and left to rust and further ruin the environment instead of properly disposing of everything

@JcLazy1

Жыл бұрын

Too expensive and laziness.

@dacksonflux

Жыл бұрын

What does it look like to "properly dispose" of something? You mean, "pack it up and dump it elsewhere"?

@Born_Free_Die_Happy

Жыл бұрын

@@dacksonflux probably recycling what can be reused and letting trees grow back where there is now only concrete. Not hard to imagine.

@Cruznick06

Жыл бұрын

@@dacksonflux Removal of hazardous materials to be disposed of in sanitary landfills or recycled. Recycling of materials that can be recycled (steel comes to mind). Breaking up the concrete to enable nature and easier time reclaiming the area.

@lizpotter8123

Жыл бұрын

In this the positive is that the Holy Land will be rebuilt as a children’s Hospital.

I went there 3-4 times with various people between when it opened until around 2004. I really loved it and so did the people I went with over the years. It was a beautiful place and very peaceful. I enjoyed eating lunch overlooking the water and the "He is Risen" shrub sign, which you can see at 40:35 in the video. The grounds and landscaping were beautiful and very well-kept. The replica of Jerusalem was really cool. There was a lot that I liked about the place. Even their logo was well done and eye-catching to me. I had no idea it closed. Makes me sad.

@SkogenWhisper

27 күн бұрын

A pale imitation of Jerusalem designed to lure in Jewish folk to convert them to Christianity is not “beautiful” its exploitative and gross

This reminds me of an attraction we had here in the Netherlands called "de Heilige Land Stichting" ("The Holy Land Foundation"). It wasn't the same as this, but the idea was similar. It offered outdoor lifesize recreations of locations in Israel during the time of Jesus, where dutch people could go on a sort of little pilgrimage. They also had an open air theatre where they could hold sermons or have concerts of religious music. That wasn't going on when I visited though, so that may have just been an occasional thing. Some of the locations may also have been used as filming locations for some low budget christian films and tv shows. But it didn't have an actor playing Jesus, or any actors on regular opening days, so it was basically more like an outdoor museum. It was renamed and rebranded to "Orientalis" somewhere in the early 2000s, and it has been converted to an oecumenical museum park with the aim of "bringing judaism, christianity and islam closer together". This Holy Land experience seems to have taken the same original idea, and just thrown every layer of kitsch and disingenuous nonsense at it. I really don't get why this type of thing is so popular in the United States, and I don't mean just this park, but all these fake televangelist charlatans claiming that "Jesus personally told me that you need to start giving me all that money, that's right, all that money you worked hard for, that you need to survive, I'm telling ya, Jesus needs you to give all of that to me now. I said Hallelujah!" It's this blatant manipulating and begging and taking advantage of the old and the weak and the gullible, and I really don't get how that can still be widely seen as an acceptable thing. I'm not even religious, but I find that offensive to people of genuine faith, and completely immoral.

@wickedguppy3715

Жыл бұрын

Madurodam was a lot more fun when I was a kid

@laceyclawson

Жыл бұрын

Well those people will be held accountable to God in judgment day for sure, in fact, the Bible states they will be held more accountable than anyone else! But Christian’s are far from the only ones that accept donations. Besides, everyone has their own free will to do whatever they want with their own money, so what’s the problem if they decide to give it to a church? Are people so ignorant they can’t think for themselves? Most people are capable of seeing the false prophets and false teachers for who they are, right? Remember, the devil also disguises himself as an Angel of light and also loves to show up disguised as a preacher in a corrupt church in order to steer the people of God away. The devil knows the scriptures too, remember that.

@gladtobeangry

Жыл бұрын

@@laceyclawson > are people so ignorant they can't think for themselves? Ehm.. the US is just recovering from a direct attack on democracy carried out by an angry mob of ignorant idiots who can't think for themselves and get conspiracy theories spoonfed to them by extreme rightwing conservative christian networks. So are all people so ignorant they can't think for themselves? No. But there are enough of them for it to be profitable to con them into donating money or violence to help you with your own selfserving causes. In fact I would go as far to call this the business model of all religions in history. Ignore the smart ones, suck every penny out of the gullible ones.

What I think would be the best thing for a religious theme park is a Veggie Tales themed one. Seriously, it's a beloved franchise with enough clout to not only get Bible believers but also non-Bible believers in. And again it's a versatile franchise you could so much with it. It probably could have gotten one before Big Idea went through money troubles but just imagine that and again it could blowout Heritage USA and Holy Land Experience.

@brandommario2

2 жыл бұрын

I’m not religious, but I think that sounds interesting

@92JazzQueen

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandommario2 if the creator gets interested I so want him to do so. And it could be counted as a park and not a church so it's just a theme park with religious theming.

@QuincyDisneyVegan

2 жыл бұрын

I am religious and a huge fan of Veggie Tales, and I agree that would be an AWESOME idea!!!

@theussmirage

2 жыл бұрын

They seriously missed the mark not putting a Veggie Tales land in this park, something like Sesame Place inside Busch Gardens

@92JazzQueen

2 жыл бұрын

@@theussmirage Veggie Tales shouldn't get mixed up with those televangelist types. This franchise has too much integrity.

A few years ago a lady at the church I go to heard we were going to Disney world for the summer and wanted to telly dad and I all about the time she went to holy land and insisted that we go. For this next bit I’d like to mention I serve the altar and I am considered an acolyte of the church, the minute she was done describing holy land I pulled my dad aside and said dad I would rather go to hell than go to the Bible themed amusement park. He laughed his ass off

@doveleboeuf6625

Жыл бұрын

@dawn breaker You better be careful you might end up in hell!!

@seasnaill2589

Жыл бұрын

Lmao. To be fair even as an agnostic myself, when I hear 'bible amusement park' the first thing that pops into my head are televangelists and mega churches. Ya know, the money grubbing side of christianity.

@ravenpotter3

Жыл бұрын

Honestly a hell themes park would be great!!! Especially if it had a hot tub wave pool

@quinnroberts8448

Жыл бұрын

@@doveleboeuf6625 💀

@Deathwish026

Жыл бұрын

@@doveleboeuf6625 doubtfull its as real as santa clause.

Going once as a teen was bonkers-life-size cutouts of Jan Crouch with her mic at every corner, insane animatronics, grating songs. My sibling got face paint on Jesus’s robes. I’ve left the faith behind, but even my devout, well-intentioned mom had to admit the place was super kitschy

@RaptureReadyforJesus-qv2ql

6 ай бұрын

Too bad that it really came down to the love of money

I went to the Holy Land as a child. We traveled from south FL to Orlando on a church trip. Honestly, I just remember it being boring. There wasn’t much to do. No rides or simulations. Just skits and things to look at. I do strangely enough remember the restaurant having this amazing apple pie dessert!!! Imagine one serving being the most memorable part lol. Anyway, I live in Orlando now and I drive past the building/carcass often. I wonder if they’ll tear it down any time soon.

@bonniehowell9206

Жыл бұрын

They're tearing it down now. I just watched a video about it which lead to watching this one.

Regardless of personal feelings about this park, it really is a shame that the beautiful architecture and landscaping here will meet it's end with a bulldozer.

@youtubegarbage7876

2 жыл бұрын

It's all plastic junk full of hateful brainwashing crap.

@daisyd8479

2 жыл бұрын

Right? I’m not religious but the architecture and theming is so nice! It would’ve been really cool to see it be turned into a theme park based on Ancient Rome or something like that!

@devonalomar9012

2 жыл бұрын

@@youtubegarbage7876 Which University?

@checksandbalences

Жыл бұрын

Having a typical "health care" conglomerate entity to take over the land is a slap to the face. Just reading off their page, they are the typical pill pushing vaccine pushing shills. Disgusting. Another profit before health poc.

@sophiagonzales8974

Жыл бұрын

@@daisyd8479 maybe a park on ancient mespotamian history would be a better idea which they portray old israel

I quite literally have to drive past this now abandoned park on the way to work everyday. It’s so weird to be close to something you’re doing a video on! Never went myself, though. I’m not really the religious type

@urbex_coasters

2 жыл бұрын

I would probably be attracted to the cite for religious reasons today but...not the builders' religion to put it lightly (abandoned places, such as what this is today, are sacred for my religion).

@paullewis4134

2 жыл бұрын

Lol same

@QuincyDisneyVegan

2 жыл бұрын

Actually being religious or not while attending Holy Land Experience really didn't matter. I know allot of popular theme park vloggers that apart from their religious upbringing aren't religious but they visited the park a few times and found it very enjoyable.

@ChouhouinNeko

2 жыл бұрын

same i work down the street at universal

@astroguster5522

2 жыл бұрын

Ayooo, Kirkman Rd guy right here

Really one of the best channels on KZread, albeit covering quite a niche subject. Appreciate your documentaries so much, I find them so interesting and the quality of your work is fantastic. As i am writing this I have a feeling I may even have posted a comment like this in the past on another video, but even if I have, it's worth saying again. Bravo 👏

We went quite a few years ago so probably before some of the goofiness. The museum exhibit on Charles Spurgeon was actually very well done and we must have missed any song and dance type things. We did watch the depiction of the crucifixion and resurrection on the full scale model set and at that time is seemed like a pretty straightforward re-enactment for the most part.

This makes me feel super icky….also folks in wheelchairs aren’t necessarily bound to them, they may just have issues walking distance, it wasn’t some miracle…

@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030

Жыл бұрын

true

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@greenaum

Жыл бұрын

Right, many people in wheelchairs aren't actually paralysed, as you say. They might have bone problems, or muscles or joints or whatever, that mean walking is very painful and exhausting so they can only do a few steps. Incidentally... Not being able to walk takes away a common form of exercise that most people get every day. That means that if you're limited in mobility like that, it's much easier to get fat. So when people see fatties on scooters, it might be that they're not just a disgusting pig who ate so much they can no longer walk. It might be that they couldn't walk for some medical reason, and that led to them getting fat. It can also be that disabled people become isolated, unable to get out of the house much, or it's such a big effort they stop bothering. So they get bored and depressed, and eat more because of that. Being disabled can lead to you being fat, more than being fat makes you disabled. Though if someone really is unable to walk because they suck buckets of fried chicken down their piehole like it was oxygen, that is disgusting and the person needs to have a word with themselves. But you can't tell by looking which is which. So withhold your judgement. It's actually rare to be too fat to walk, even extreme lardbeasts manage to get up and walk, so a fatty in a scooter is more likely to have a real disability to start with. Someone I know was training to be a dancer before becoming too disabled, eventually, to walk.

@rftt6y7tr

Жыл бұрын

@@greenaum Also economic factors. Unhealthy foods are typically much cheaper then healthy ones. So a what can happen is someone becomes over weight still suffers from vitamin malnutrition. This is the case for the tv over 500 pounds reality tv show.

That story at 27:54 that woman gives seems very scummy to me. I've seen kids get up out of wheelchairs to hug Mickey Mouse yet Disney, as scummy and vile as they are, doesn't tout that as some sort of miracle or anything like that to sell their product. There are many valid reasons, none of which are ever your business and you shouldn't ask about, that someone could be using a wheelchair and still be able to walk. Someone deciding it being worth it to get up and walk for what you're doing does not mean you're "healing" them or performing any kind of miracle.

@Stettafire

Жыл бұрын

Ja, many wheelchair uses use it cus they can't walk very far not because they can't walk. To tout it as a miracle and claim they are healed is very exploitative and disrespectful

@taurinecat

Жыл бұрын

I saw a lady get up out of her chair to reach some lactose free milk yesterday.

@TigerAceSullivan

Жыл бұрын

when she started i thought naively that she was gonna say they made sure the guy in the wheelchair got to be in the very front so he could see, not... that.

@jamie1602

Жыл бұрын

The majority of us in wheelchairs can use our legs to walk for a short period of time. It's usually just agonizing and painful. I can't do this all day, otherwise the rest of my body will begin to suffer. If I've gone to get groceries without my wheelchair, I'll be in bed all day because it hurts that much. The nerve pain is just... that bad. We could use our wheelchairs for heart problems, nerve pain, damage to our limbs, or any reason that may limit our mobility. It's not a miracle and we're not faking. The fact the public won't educate themselves on something like this is really pathetic. I used to go to a Catholic school and it was complete with nuns leading our education. They didn't pray over me (I used my wheelchair long after my education but still saw them!) and they recognized things happened in life. They didn't see my fellow students who developed cancer as sinful or a reflection of their sin. It's just life. It happens. God gives us doctors. We go to doctors. We get treatment. That's how it was. Our job as Catholics was to be decent people to those in need and stop quoting a stupid book because that certainly didn't help. There were some that didn't live up to that. We don't talk to them because they're jerks. Kind of simple. Yeah it's a liberal Catholic upbringing and "how dare you be a liberal Catholic" but... whatever. Don't faith heal me, creepy fundies.

@Mike_Jones281

Жыл бұрын

@@taurinecat 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I sure dodged a bullet on this one, I can’t imagine bringing my twin 4 year old grandsons to a show where a person is Murdered and buried in a pile of rocks and then turns into a ghost. This type of teaching gave me nightmares all throughout my life. I was raised catholic baptized and confirmed. I remember being terrified that I was going to die and go to hell, I had nightmares about demons chasing me. Pushing you beliefs on young minds that have not developed yet is abuse. I realize that this has been going on since the beginning of religions however as a developed society we need to do better when introducing our young children to the spiritual world.

I moved to Orlando after this place was closed down, but I would always pass this area and wonder what used to be going on there. Really informative video man. Thank you. As of writing this comment today, I can confirm they have begun tearing the whole place down. Passed by on the way to work and saw a bunch of crews tearing up the place.

How did Jim Baker not get into this. You ought to check out his theme park, complete with a water slide. Also, had a friend who worked at Holy Land towards the end of the park’s existence. Apparently the one actor who portrayed Jesus Christ literally thought he was basically Jesus….

@ExpeditionThemePark

2 жыл бұрын

Trinity was founded with the Bakers but they were ousted shortly after. I have plans to cover that park soon

@mathieuleader8601

2 жыл бұрын

ooh Jerusalem Syndrome

@davidmaineri7557

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't surprise me at about the actor. Some people are delusional. Especially the part where she was talking about give us your money not your family.

@firewalker1372

2 жыл бұрын

@@ExpeditionThemePark That should be a very interesting video….

@Happymali10

2 жыл бұрын

@@ExpeditionThemePark Consider also looking at the Arc Encounter with their big economic letdown and the fake "police" if you complained about the attraction^^

As somebody who lives and works in the theme park industry here in Orlando I definitely appreciate this video. I only visited the holy land experience once. That being said though it’s an experience that I don’t think I’ll ever forget. When I first moved to Florida a few of my buddies and I went to the holy land experience for shits and giggles. I personally was going through a bit of depression at the time so I was just happy to get out of the house. The only thing that I really truly remember was talking to the guy that basically dressed up as Jesus and walked around. I remember just talking to that guy and I just told him I was going through a hard time and he said hey let’s pray, so we did. Now I’m not a religious guy for the most part but at that exact moment I felt something that I’ve never felt before and probably will never feel again and for that I’m thankful to have gone.

@janepatton8100

Жыл бұрын

Why don't you come to meet the real Jesus... The worth and dignity of a soul is measured by what it delights in! And delight/happiness is our highest desire. Men have killed to have it. Kings have gone mad trying to find it. Wars have served it. Affairs have worshiped it. We all seek it. Sadly, billions have died without discovering its secret... namely, that joy is not an it, but a He. The Gospel is the good news that sinners can delight in a Holy God. It's the good news that all of our deepest desires are satisfied in the ONE who sent His Son to bring us to Him. . God is so valuable and so satisfying that the most loving thing he could do for us is to make Himself gloriously indispensable. He is the only being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the highest virtue. Therefore, God's commitment to be glorified and our goal to be satisfied are not at odds but come to simultaneous consummation in the worship of His Son... who took upon Himself the Wrath that God had towards us in our sinful disregard of Him. A wrath that could never be appeased through man-made religion. Jesus didn't die to turn the world into a paradise, he died so that we could stop seeking paradise in the world... Temporal things such as beauty, popularity, money, sex, racial identity, gender reassignment... can never truly satisfy. BECAUSE WE WERE MADE FOR SO MUCH MORE! We were made to gaze intently into the Eternal Beauty of a majestic King, Father, and God... meet Jesus the Christ. Life is hard, God is good, Glory is coming 😊... Thanks for taking the time to read this comment. May God bless you with all things necessary for life and goodness. God Bless!

@v1111.

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing...just so u know jesus isn't a religion my friend... religion is meant to separate people it's all about a personal relationship with him 🙂

@Dreigonix

Жыл бұрын

Aww. Hey- religious or not, it’s nice to just have a fellow human acknowledge you when you’re in a tough spot.

@Born_Free_Die_Happy

Жыл бұрын

@@janepatton8100 i lol'd at that first line Legit sounded like a death threat

@NicoleMoonyt

Жыл бұрын

@@Born_Free_Die_Happy Not gonna lie, I laughed. I thought it was about to be a sarcastic post and then nope'd out bc that's long as heck. lol.

i remember going here when i was in elementary school during summer break. it wasn't voluntary, i had been attending a church's after school program for a couple years at that point and they did a summer program too, to keep kids out of the house while the parents went to work. that typically just involved hanging around the church's children area for like 8 hours straight with nothing to do but build legos and play mario kart on the wii, but sometimes they took us on fieldtrips too. this was one of them i literally have like almost no vivid memories of the place, whether it be because i was bored out of my mind or because i was too young, but the one memory i do have is a small show scene they did outside that - looking back - i think is so fucking funny. it was supposed to portray the resurrection of christ from his tomb, and the roman soldiers finding him gone, which is well and good and shit, but for some reason they pulled people from the audience to like pretend to be roman soldiers, if my memory still serves???? but keep in mind the audience was mostly comprised of like, many children, and maybe three adults. so like, imagine being a young christian child at an already weird christian themepark, and youre randomly picked to pretend to be one of the soldiers that literally killed jesus. wild times

I am still blown away by how you can get "tax exempt" just by slapping God on something. Just because this was a bad theme park, doesn't mean it wasn't one. It was still a business selling a product. I pray for all the poor kids that got taken to holy land instead of Disney World.

@arriuscalpurniuspiso

3 ай бұрын

Math teachers pay taxes. These people don't

I have to give credit to my brother's class for single-handedly getting our Catholic high school permanently banned for their misbehavior during the junior class trip in 2010. Rip Holy Land Experience 🙃🤧

@sailormoonfan224

Жыл бұрын

now THAT sounds like one hell of a story!

@catyburnam2915

Жыл бұрын

I love it! As a former Cat id def be on te bad list as a teen!

@Pottawattamie

Жыл бұрын

@@catyburnam2915 My school year did the same in France some of them went off got drunk and misbehaved in a churchyard afterwards from then on our school was permanently banned.

@toddburgess5056

Жыл бұрын

How did they achieve that?

@krart8401

Жыл бұрын

PLEASE tell us that story, i am very interested

I'm a devout Christian, but I've always found the prospect of The Holy Land Experience at worst troubling and at best pretty hilarious. My sister and I used to run a blog and we wrote up fictitious ad copy for it. I think our favorite idea for an attraction was "Walking on Water with Peter." Don't doubt, or you'll fall in! Waiting for the lightning to strike me.

@bigredjanie

2 жыл бұрын

That was my first thought when hearing about this: What audience was this park for? The non-religious or those of other faiths would be turned off by the very concept of a Christian theme park. while the truly devoted would (rightfully) see the place as a tacky cash-grab.

@ralelunar

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigredjanie I feel the same way about the Ark Experience that they built in Kentucky.

@melasn9836

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigredjanie Sadly, I know from my own family that there are a lot of Christians who will only go to places like Holy Land because they make a big show of being the "Christian version" of those other "bad" secular parks. Same for any other similar cash grab.

@averyeml

2 жыл бұрын

But honestly that’s the whole vibe the park gives off- that same “Jesus loves your money, give it to us for Jesus” vibe that televangelists and the like give off so often

@babybookworm003

2 жыл бұрын

Because faith should be a private thing between you and the Lord and not a public show

What a very cool exploration! Great video! I really appreciate all the great information you provided. I've seen a couple of other Urbexers video this place but I don't think they ever provided this much history.

I died LAUGHING when they said the strong Jewish protestor ended up getting arrested for trying to bomb a mosque 🤣🤣🤣

I went with my parents when I was like 14! They had one interesting show that was more historically focused than religious, and a great hot dog… and nothing else.

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

@Christa Simon since when do Amerikan christians care about doing what jebus would do? Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@starspeculation

Жыл бұрын

@Christa Simon Beef hotdogs are pretty dope. It really feels "meatier" than a chicken or pork hotdog. Almost gamey even.

My aunt died in 2017 and I have all her photo albums, including one that says “Holy Land Experience April 2012” It was cool seeing so many pictures she had taken referred to in this video. In all her captions and pictures she seemed excited. Knowing my aunt, I know she probably loved it. I was trying to remember if she had told me about her trip… she probably did but it’s been so long. I wanted to know more about what was in the photo album and that’s what made me click on the video.

What in interesting place I’ve never heard of. It’s still hard to wrap my head around something that is 20+ years old and only opened in early 2000. When I hear the year 2000 it seems like a few years ago, not 20 years!

Thanks for sharing. I never knew this park existed. I'm now a subscriber to see what other interesting parks you show.

@ExpeditionThemePark

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

I had the unfortunate experience of being forced to come here as a teen. It was just a bunch of rooms like a museum not a "theme park". They did however have theme park snacks like turkey legs.

@thejman5683

Жыл бұрын

That must have been one hell of a last supper

@4knewt505

Жыл бұрын

@@thejman5683 you beat me to it

@YouOnlyIiveTwice

Жыл бұрын

From what I understand that also is what that Ark attraction thing in (I think) Tennessee is. It's just essentially a museum with a bunch of exhibits showing different scenes from the Bible.

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

"Museum" is a stretch. Museums contain facts. Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@Brittanee2008

Жыл бұрын

I had the turkey legs years ago too..that's honestly all I remember and how nice the weather and scenery was..

My first time in Orlando I rented a car and just drove around for a day. I drove past so many random, and mostly defunct now, attractions. Holy land was one of them and being pagan I thought it would be a lark but decided against it. Eventually I found Gatorland. I was accidently locked into a lorikeet feeding pen by inattentive staff. Still think I made the right choice between the two places.

@chrisleneil

Жыл бұрын

If you’re ever here again, take a little road trip (about an hour & 45 minutes) to Weeki Wachee to see the world’s greatest cheesy mermaid show! It is a kitschy fantasy 🧜🏽‍♀️ I’m from here, & I still enjoy it

@SavvyNitro

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisleneil i had family living in Spring Hill when i was kid and always passed that sign about the mermaid show on the trip there. always wanted to go!

@simon13031

Жыл бұрын

😅😆👍🙏

@allysyncharles9976

Жыл бұрын

@@SavvyNitro if you ever get the chance to come down here again, do it. I went for the first time in like 15 years over this past summer and that place has not aged a day. Buccaneer bay is quite nice bc the springs are a perfect cold temperature year round and there’s a little hidden river boat tour in the back of the park that gives an amazing history lesson. Also arguably the best part is the show is opened by a personalized message from Jimmy buffet bc that man has a strange relationship with those mermaids and it’s just incredible you gotta go man

@michaelturner5050

Жыл бұрын

Which pagan religion are you? Norse, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Gaul?

I immediately perked up when you said advent health because I literally did an internship with them last year in Orlando. I had no idea this place existed until now but knowing I was right there this time last year is wild.

Omg even the description is boring. This is a really great cure for my insomnia. My parents dragged us here once and after about 1 hr, even they decided this was way too boring to stay any longer.

I went here for my 18th birthday with my mom a long time ago (as a joke). It was super creepy, they follow you around and watch you from a distance the whole time to make sure you aren't laughing at everything, and they had signs posted everywhere saying they'll kick you out if you aren't taking it seriously.

@secretsquirrel6718

Жыл бұрын

Ha. I guess they didn't want a group of teenagers going in there and running around causing trouble until they got thrown out. Haha

@seasnaill2589

Жыл бұрын

If they were open today they'd probably get a lot of gay couples. I can see quite a few people making tiktoks of themselves kissing their partners in front of a jesus statue

@analdilwer

Жыл бұрын

@@seasnaill2589 Yeah, I'd go there with my girlfriend wearing a pentagram necklace and chanting Satanic scriptures.

@roseharrell1021

Жыл бұрын

@@analdilwer Wow!! Really?? That's deep ( and very Twisted). I am not overly religious; however I do respect the Lord and his Works. I guess we worship who moves our souls. Free choice; Free will ( one of our gifts from God). Just be ready when the time comes for you to pay the Piper.

@analdilwer

Жыл бұрын

@@roseharrell1021 Satan is hot.

My elementary class went on a field trip to the Holy Land in 2008 or 2009 and I distinctly remember 3 things about this place 1: the moment my group walked in we heard this blood curdling scream, looked up, and saw Jesus getting crucified just as we were entering. 2: me and the girls went over the Jonah section and into the whale's mouth, screamed when a starfish on the wall started talking to us, and immediately ran away 3: one of the stages was empty so I got up on it and started to sing and dance. A nun walked by 5 seconds later and yelled at me to get down💀 I'm not religious anymore, but it was a relatively fun trip (even if all of us would've preferred to go to Disney instead lol)

@rebekahs.5369

Жыл бұрын

I remember walking into the whale’s mouth and being scared too😂😂

@nancymcgee4776

Жыл бұрын

There is no way, a school field trip would be approved to go to somewhere like this today! Somebody would sue!

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@STho205

Жыл бұрын

@@nancymcgee4776 Church anchored private school most likely. Nobody's going to sue. They may be dissapointed, but won't sue.

@KatieBellino

Жыл бұрын

@@nancymcgee4776 Even in 2008/2009, I assume that the trip was done with a private Christian school.

I went there several times when I lived in Orlando. I didn't know they closed it. Thanks for the information.

I’ve never heard of this place before! This is wild hearing about such a place but this was fun to hear about. Im not religious but it’s still crazy knowing such a place was opened.

I had visited the HLE with my family as a young kid in the mid-late 2000s in between visiting Universal studios and it was actually pretty decent, The huge model they had indoors was really cool and the street plays that they had were very emotive. As skeptical of a Christian that I am and even back then of people who try to exploit people and profit off of the Name of Jesus, The HLE wasn't really bad and I've seen much worse. Edit: I'm told by my Mother that we went before the TBN takeover which explains the more authentic feeling experience

@babiifrshj07

Жыл бұрын

My dad took our family there the year it opened, and yeah, I gotta agree with you that the experience was so different from the TBN takeover experience. I never went back after that first time, and I didn't even know TBN took over, but based on what we see in this doc, I am so glad I never did go back.

@doubledanger10

Жыл бұрын

Same here! I went with my family around the same time and, while I can't recall a lot about the park, I do remember it being an overall fun time! It definitely wasn't Disney or Universal, but there was still enough to walk around and see that it felt worth it. It may have been just a little cheesy at times, but not in an over-the top trying too hard way.

@evelyncaruso4441

Жыл бұрын

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Lmfao my parents would always threaten me and my brothers with going there. Every time we’d go to Florida for Disney and universal they’d park outside of Holy Land and pretend to get tickets then come back and be like “haha gooot yaaa” 😂 such an evil trick

@pizzaman8918

9 ай бұрын

Ok that’s funny

@brittnaycattaneo6015

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@its_me_christopher_16

5 ай бұрын

that’s just sad

Omg, I completely forgot about this! I never went, but I watched a LOT of TBN as a kid. I remember seeing the ads.

I had never heard of this place as a kid. My parents were smart enough to spend their hard earned money on a vacation to Disney ( back when it was affordable) still a cool place I guess if you’re into history like I am

Props to you for your fair assessment of this place. Others would use it as an opportunity bash, you did not.

@MrNyislandersrule

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing. As a Jew this park seems ridiculous but this video was respectful for sure.

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@debigodsey

Жыл бұрын

I went to the holy Land experience three times, three different years. It was wonderful. We drove all the way from Wisconsin to enjoy it. It was the highlight of our trip. Every year.

@snowlondon8642

Жыл бұрын

i’m not a christian and have intentionally distanced myself from the church, but i will say that (like many pieces of Abrahamic architecture) this park looks absolutely gorgeous. Church always makes me kind of queasy from trauma, but honestly i’d love to look around at all of the little details and artifacts laying around

There was a movie called 'For Richer Or Poorer' where one of the main characters is pitching to a group of investors, the idea for a bible based theme park called... The Holy Land. This movie came out in 1997 and I can't help but wonder if it was inspiration for Rosenthal to build his Holy Land park.

As much as some may find it an odd place or idea, thankyou for not rubbishing it.

I went in around 2008. It was more like museum if you got there at the wrong time. The big attraction was a live action show of Jesus from Passover to the resurrection. The cool part was that it wasn't on stage. It was acted out in the park like as if it were happening right in front of you.

@greenamber9827

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking that this sounds more like an outdoor museum that a theme park.

@rdred8693

2 ай бұрын

That sounds kind of fun

you can tell that this park was a real labor of love for the man who founded it, and it was probably as close to an authentic experience as one could reasonably expect to find on a dozen acres right off the I-4. then TBN took it over and pushed the founder out.

@jordanwhite352

Жыл бұрын

As my Christian friends have told me over and over again...the real enemy of Christians are other Christians.

@adamchaifetz5876

Жыл бұрын

Real Christian of them

Great video! Thank you.

Drive past this on I-4 all the time. Always get a kick out of it. Never knew much until now

I think your coverage of this entity was very fair and straightforward - so many others would have approached this in the spirit of a mocking hit piece. You allowed the flow of events to set the narrative; thereby enabling the viewers to interpret for themselves what had happened. Well done!

@debshaw680

Жыл бұрын

Because the place is a joke. He didn’t even mention the dinosaurs in the park. You can see them from the road. Jesus in a sequined jacket. The only people in Orlando who don’t think this place is a joke are the people who work there.

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@musiciandeborah1854

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Today's journalism could learn a thing or two from their reporting style ... simply tell what is/what happened, leave out the opinionated language and one-sided info, and equally present both sides of the coin. Then let the viewers decide what they think.

@ClaudioMichel

Жыл бұрын

Came here to write the same thing. For me the Park is a total oddity and weird. Also the commercialization of the christian religion is pretty much the opposite of what Jesus in the bible stood for. But noneoftheless I appreciate the way it was presented. Oh and: Thank god for making me an atheist! 😄

@JosephKulik2016

Жыл бұрын

@@musiciandeborah1854 Dear Deborah: I agree also. The job of a journalist is to report FACTS, not OPINIONS. However, the distinction between FACTS and OPINIONS seems hopelessly forgotten in Modern Journalism. It was a difficult task to create an objective account of this Theme Park without periodically breaking out into laughter, but this guy did it like an Old Fashion, No Nonsense Reporter.

I was in college when Holy Land decided to do that free entry day. My friends thought it would be funny to go there and take advantage of the opportunity. I didn't bother going, but my friends told me that it was an...interesting experience to say the least.

I went here 18 years ago and honestly loved it. I really enjoyed the tabernacle and the story of church. I was sad it shut down 😢

Surprised it took so long to close. Thought this should have happened 15 years ago. Always thought it had weird vibes

I used to be in Girl Scouts. Every year, our cookie sales were added up and we were allowed to celebrate by spending the money on a trip. One year, one of the girls suggested Holy Land. I was a thrill seeker and thought we should do Bush Gardens. Anyway, I was genuinely terrified that the troop would vote to go to Holy Land. A lot of the girls were or pretended to be zealots. Suffice to say, I legit campaigned to convince those brats not to waste my hard work on church tickets.

@dianalindeman1644

Жыл бұрын

Asian countries have hell parks. The Christian theme parks have never been worse. At least they've never had the gruesome displays of their Asian Buddhist counterparts.

@dianalindeman1644

Жыл бұрын

We Christians don't believe Judaism is a false faith. We believe it's incomplete without the recognition of Jesus as the Messiah. Knowledgeable Christians also realize that current Judaism is corrupted and paganized.

@toddmiller5884

Жыл бұрын

@@dianalindeman1644 You must read Sam Nadler.

@dianalindeman1644

Жыл бұрын

@@toddmiller5884 I don't know his work. My point is that a Christian Bible park is no more objectionable than an Asian Buddhist hell park. The Buddhist parks succeed were the Christian parks fail because of demographics. There are more Buddhists to patronize their hell parks than there are Protestant Christian evangelicals to patronize their Bible parks.

@toddmiller5884

Жыл бұрын

@@dianalindeman1644 Sam Nadler is the pastor of a Messianic Jewish ministry in Charlotte, NC.

I'm a devout Christian & dont think I EVER would have visited this park, it looks soo boring 😂 even if beautiful with good shows, im not sure how anybody but religious adults would ever have enjoyed this. Crazy how it went abandoned. Good coverage, Expedition!!

@shinyagumon7015

2 жыл бұрын

Which is honestly sad because the Bible has a lot of cool stories that you could build an attraction around.

@kevinhead5795

2 жыл бұрын

@@shinyagumon7015 Yea all that genocide,cool

@soapiscooler

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinhead5795 LOL!!! "And on todays show, the plauges!"

@katnile5472

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinhead5795 Hey, that’ll make great dark ride, with the angels being at the gate at the end… only people 18 and up could ride, will give kids nightmares.

@RemoWilliams1227

2 жыл бұрын

@@soapiscooler I would be genuinely interested to see it rain frogs and blood.

I appreciate that you didn't make fun of this place. Thanks for your cool videos!!

I remember seeing ads for this on tbn, and never really thought much about since, didn’t realize it was this ridiculous.

I used to live in Orlando and work for Universal. I totally went here with a friend once, I want to say it was like sometime in 2004-2006ish? Sometime around there! We were curious about what we thought was a “religious theme park” but it turned out to be a big old snooze fest. I think we stayed like 2 hours? I remember it being really pretty but there was absolutely nothing to do. So hard to compete with Disney, Universal, Seaworld, etc. all right there. I also remember the park being super empty!

@ecoRfan

2 жыл бұрын

My aunt and uncle and cousins went there in 2005

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

I’m a Florida native and I used to pass by this park all the time driving from Oviedo to Disney world as a kid. Being I live near Disney now I stopped passing by it, so I wasn’t aware it shut down. Never visited this place nor did I ever hear anyone talk about it

@youtubegarbage7876

2 жыл бұрын

How many washing machines do you have in your yard?

@boojersey13

Жыл бұрын

Ayyyyyy Oviedo, I'm by UCF haha

@Viking_Luchador

Жыл бұрын

Like all "faith based" establishments in the United States, it was a shameless con designed to ripoff the gullible and avoid paying taxes

@kaywacore

Жыл бұрын

oviedo gang let’s go!!

@thewhitewolf7886

Жыл бұрын

You guys ever see Blake Bortles out and about? Tell him I love him 😂😂

I just remember the tbn lady with the big pink hair that was always crying used to do her show from this place a lot in the 2000s.

My god that wheelchair story 😫 like first of all not everyone who uses a wheelchair is incapable of walking/standing

1:50 I literally cried at the gas prices 😭

@dragishawk9564

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Those carefree days of one dollar a gallon are *long* gone.

@carmenmonoxide7459

Жыл бұрын

I said, WOW. I'm so paranoid that gas prices are going to go up as I sleep!

It’s a shame they opted to never add rides or paid for attractions. I can only imagine the things they could have built. The Crucifix - suspended coaster To hell and back - free fall ride Noah’s boat ride and petting zoo The last supper - restaurant Adam and Eve - adult novelty store Goliath - clone of original coaster Tower of Babel - tower of terror knock off The carpenter - classic wood coaster Probably pissed some people off with my list, but they’ll survive.

@seatspud

Жыл бұрын

Adam and Eve: Adult novelties? Sounds like something that already exists. ;)

@gspendlove

Жыл бұрын

I don't know....To Hell and Back sounds like a title that might be more suitable for a dark ride. A super scary one.

@eulesssucks

Жыл бұрын

Lmao! You win the internet today 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jenjustjen8495

Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine if they used an authentic middle eastern looking Jesus? Especially after 9/11. Now I might pay good money just to see the faces on the crowds when that Jesus popped out on stage!

@wilm2109

Жыл бұрын

lol that last one made laugh.

I remember seeing a commercial for this on smile of a child. I enjoyed some of the shows on there.

I remember being taken there by my youth group back in 2009, we didn't just go to holy land, they knew that would've been too cruel and so they took us to universal studios for a few days as well. I still have the sword letter opener I bought from the holy land.

Took my mother there for her 60th birthday just before the pandemic clapped our collective cheeks. I hadn't been a Christian for over twenty years by that point, but this was for Ma, and I wanted her to enjoy herself. As a history nerd, I appreciated the effort they put into the theming, and I honestly loved the scaled model. The show they had that year was pretty impressive as well, in my case, mainly because I was in awe of the vocal talent they had. Overall, Ma did enjoy herself, so my brother and I called the entire thing a success.

@ThePmcderm91

Жыл бұрын

That’s all I went the for too. My mom is very religious and me and my brother are pretty much atheist . But we love her so much we took her there. She had a blast and so we did too :)

@almightyyeezydab5149

4 ай бұрын

You should accept Jesus again. He is our savior

@cometgirl217

4 ай бұрын

Um…FYI “clapping cheeks” is modern slang for sex (particularly, as conducted in a vigorous way that causes a participant’s buttocks to make a reverberating noise). I’m guessing you were using the term in a humorous (perhaps, trolling? 😏) way, but wanted to make the term clear for anyone else’s grandpa who sent them a link to this video

In Berg en Dal in the Netherlands there also is a theme park that recreates the holy land in Jesus's times. Only not creepy, or faith based, but different styles of villages by all the religions and tribes that lived there in the time. You can even experience the lifestyle, like how they baked bread, herded animals etc. It is science based and I love it, so do all religions that visit. So it is possible to do it in a non - controversial way. "Heilig Landstichting" Bible museum if you are interested

@elizabethb4168

Жыл бұрын

That's really interesting!

@laceyclawson

Жыл бұрын

Well Jesus is controversial and this park was meant to glorify God and provide a living biblical experience, that also included scientifically verified artifacts and information. Still sounds like a cool park that you mentioned, but i think you’re missing the point of this park.

I have been to The Holy Land not once but TWICE in my childhood, it was the boring half-day (because there wasn’t much to do) in between the fun days of Disney and Universal.

brooooo, i remember getting a booklet for this place out of a CD case! i don’t remember what movie it was, probably veggie tales or something. omg, i always wondered about this place and what became of it just because of how bizarre it was!