Religious Road Trip
I just heard a interesting story of a professor who took his family on the road to see religious attractions in the American south. He chronicles it in a new book called Roadside Religion. Places like Golgotha Fun Park, the World's Largest Ten Commandments, Paradise Gardens, Ave Maria Grotto, Holy Land USA and, yes, Cross Garden.Now if only I can do an American version and an International version, anyone have any suggestions for a book on religious attractions of the world? To hear the interview on NPR, click here.
posted by tosher @ 9:39 AM
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Well, there's always the chronicle of "Jesus and Mary sightings in Earthly Objects" - there should be a documentary on that. A photo book with accompanying art. Something to document all of it from around the world, or just the U-S alone. All jokes aside, there is a huge cult following of those sightings. The Virgin Mary in the Cheese Sandwich sold on e-bay for 25-thousand dollars, and it's going on tour with an online casino. A neighborhood in Illinois (or Indiana, have to look it up) that had to shut down a street light after someone claimed the shadow from the light looked like Jesus, and the next week, thousands of people showed up to hold vigils, prayers, etc. to this Jesus Streetlight. Not exactly the religious attractions you were thinking of, but "attractions" just the same. Shows how desperate people are for a tangible God connection, now that the governments of the world are trying to destroy the real deal in public places (No 10 Commandments in courthouses or schools? No problem, Jesus is in a cinnamon bun right down the street). People will make their own religious attractions that make them aware of God, regardless of government sanctioning.
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