Originally Posted By danyoung >They have guide books to WDW for many, many different people. I have no problem with someone publishing one for christians.< If the book was from the standpoint of a guidebook to WDW with a Christian slant, advising where to go and where not to go, I don't think I'd have too much of a problem. But when they want to turn WDW into a giant Christian teaching tool, something which we all know the parks weren't designed to do, then yeah, I have a big problem with that.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I just think the need for this is strange. It's almost a, "We're a better Christian than you because when we go to WDW we teach our kids how to look at it through Christian eyes..." type of attitude.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Why is a christian book being promoted regarding the Disney parks?<< Because Protestant Fundies regard the world as basically evil and corrupt, and see Diablo's hand in everything. I know, it's absurd. I know people who won't let their children watch Avatar: The Last Air Bender because it promotes "New Age Spirituality"
Originally Posted By plpeters70 It wasn't that long ago that the Southern Baptists tried to get their members to boycott all things Disney, including the Parks, because Disney hired gay people - and allowed events like Gay Days to happen in their parks. It's kind of hilarious that there's now a "Christian" guide to the place run by a company they hated not that long ago.
Originally Posted By 182 The Stapleton 2012 Gay Guide to Walt Disney World & Orlando <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stapleton-Guide-Disney-World-Orlando/dp/1467986941" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Stapleto...67986941</a>
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Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I think that is getting a little too personal . Why is this little E-book being criticized because it happens to be about Christianity and Disney? I guess it would be alright to have another Beer Drinkers Guide to Epcot but Heaven Forbid this subject!
Originally Posted By 182 There are people on this forum that hate hate hate Republican Christians even when Republican Christians are not doing anything hateful or judgemental.
Originally Posted By fkurucz Donny, I hate to tell you this... But according to the Protestant Fundies types who wrote this book, you are a member of a non Christian Cult. So I find it odd that you defend them as they would LOVE for your church to shrivel up and go away.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I view it as yet another group trying to cash in on the Disney brand. It seems that you can sell any product out there by putting the Disney label on it.
Originally Posted By 182 fkurucz this is not about me. I would defend a person who wants to write a book about how to avoid Mormons at Disney World.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Jeff Chaves uses the rides and sights of Disney World as real life examples of biblical truths. << I've seen it all now. Yes, Tower of Terror, Big Thunder, and the Tiki Room clearly exemplify biblical truths.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> I wonder how that book discribes Universe of Energy, since the story includes the Big Bang billions of years ago and that doesn't go well with the Christian theory of a creator. << Totally off topic, but wasn't there a Catholic priest involved with the origins of the Big Bang theory?
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <<wasn't there a Catholic priest involved with the origins of the Big Bang theory?>> Just looked it up. Yes, you are correct. <Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble> Apparently he was a secular priest. I wonder what that guide book says about Illuminations.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<I view it as yet another group trying to cash in on the Disney brand. It seems that you can sell any product out there by putting the Disney label on it.>> Like
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Apparently he was a secular priest.<< FYI, a "secular Priest" is one who is not a member of a religious order, like the Jesuits or Franciscans. The majority of Catholic Priests are "secular"
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>I would defend a person who wants to write a book about how to avoid Mormons at Disney World.<< I agree that an LDS basher has every right to write such a book, but that doesn't mean we have to approve of the book's contents.
Originally Posted By fkurucz "I've seen it all now. Yes, Tower of Terror, Big Thunder, and the Tiki Room clearly exemplify biblical truths." You have to understand that they perceive the world as a huge evil threat. Hence they homeschool their kids, regardless of the quality of local public schools. This book is clearly meant as a tool so that they can take the kids to Disney while navigating around the many "troubling" aspects of such a place. While I haven't read it, I'm sure that it warns parents to avoid the Universe of Energy attraction, with its "unbiblical" history of the world (plus the lesbian hostess).
Originally Posted By danyoung >Why is this little E-book being criticized because it happens to be about Christianity and Disney?< I have nothing at all against Christianity, having been raised that way and being the son of a Protestant minister. But here's the part I have a problem with, from the original post - >Jeff Chaves uses the rides and sights of Disney World as real life examples of biblical truths.< The Disney rides should be taken for what they are - not as "examples of biblical truths".
