The Creatonist Museum?

Question

Supposedly the Creation Museum in Kentucky cost around 27 million $ to build (I say supposedly since different sites report different numbers from 25-27million). Does anybody else think that money should have gone to people who needed it....not displays of T-Rex eating coconuts?

Kenny P , im a Christian.
And who says its the only thing I dont agree with spending money on? Its just a question...relax! ;)

Also, I'm fully aware no tax money was used. I was just thinking about what could be done with that 27 million dollars.....

Ellen J, I understand your point, but please dont judge me. I dont have a cell phone cause it costs too much, I'm at college thanks to Hope, I haven't bought a new shirt since August, and I cut my own hair. ;)
And I'm still luckier than 99% of the world.


The point of the question was if anybody else thought the museum was a good investment of that money, not to pour over every misused dime.

Answer 1

I would have no problem if they didn't then try to pretend this was science of any kind. Sure, call it Christian Disney World, or Christian Fantasy Land, and fund it from private sources entirely, but it is offensive to use taxpayer's money to subsidise what is basically a self-indulgent theme park for one particular group.

Given the number of poor in America and their basic lack of access to health care, social services and other necessities, that $25 million COULD have been and SHOULD have been spent on much worthier causes. This advances no-one's interests except the political cause of fundamentalist Christianity.

Edit: I definitely think this is a great example of capitalist fundamentalist Christianity forgetting its concern for the poor and enjoying a hugely self-indulgent, orgiastic spending spree that, of course, is dressed up as 'preaching the word'.

Dammit, you mean NO tax payer's money was used? Now I want a full congressional committee into why there was no Republican porkbarelling going on to fund this lunacy!

Answer 2

This museum was paid for entirely by private donations. Not one cent of tax money was used in it's construction. If people want to donate their money to be used like this that's their business and why do you care anyway?
People spend billions of dollars caring for their pets. Wouldn't this money be better used caring for people in need? How do we justify spending $40,000.00 a year going to an Ivy League college when people live on $50.00 a year in Africa? Are you paying big $$ for a subscription to a cell phone? I bet you have two or three times more clothes then you really need. I bet your last trip to the beauty parlor would have supported a starving child in Asia for a year.
The point is that this stupid argument could be drug out to attack any expenditure that you don't personally like.
Leave the Christians alone. I bet $1,000.00 that not a single one of them has arrived at your doorstep criticizing you for the way you spend your money or how you spend your time.

Answer 3

There are a great many things they should have spent the money on instead of that....
.... but one must never forget:
Christians are stupid.
Americans are stupid.
Christian Americans are stupid squared.

Stupid squared doesn't have the capacity to think before it spends.
It probably couldn't have been any other way.

Answer 4

Of course that money would have been better spent in other places....but what do you expect from the country that has spent Trillions of dollars murdering people in iraq instead of investing that in homeland security?
Do you have any idea how many Civilians we have "Accidently" killed over there? If we set up a trillion dollar security system in America I can assure you we would never see another 9/11.

Answer 5

And what a waste of private donations it is, too.

Answer 6

I think it sounds like a great museum

Answer 7

apparantly you have not been to that museum. You should go see it before you critize it. It is an eye opener with lots of good stuff

Besides, with your thinking, The National Endowment for the arts gets MANY, MANY more millions ( of tax dollars) (while the Creation Museum was privately funded) that could have gone to people who need it.......Why not complain about THAT.......could it be because that organization isn't Christian?

Answer 8

Arguably, Creationists do need that museum because, after all, "seeing is believing".

Answer 9

Yes. The creationists just build it to compete with all those damn satanic sodomite FACT-based museums.

Answer 10

um yes its the biggest joke ever