Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of 
UPI reports:
Nashville could have two Bible theme parks thanks to a developing rivalry in Middle Tennessee.The competition comes as The Holy Land Experience plans an expansion from its Orlando base to Hendersonville headquarters of Trinity Music City -- even as Bible Park USA, which has been attempting to buy land outside Murfreesboro continues its efforts to find a site.
This isn't gonna end well. Think Crips and Bloods. Think Hatfields and McCoys. Think Cain and Abel. Think Judean People's Front and People's Front of Judea.
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At the very least, we can all hope that this will lead to a marked improvement in the Latin Grammar of Tennesseans everywhere.
Posted by: Julian | July 5, 2008 10:13 AM
"Judean People's Front*"? Let's hope that's the crack suicide squad, last seen trying to save Brian. -DJ
*Umm, shouldn't that be "Judean Peoples' Front" & "Peoples' Front of Judea"? Just asking.
Posted by: DingoJack | July 5, 2008 10:45 AM
Nope, Ed was right the first time. Still hoping for the suicide squad, though.
Posted by: DingoJack | July 5, 2008 10:49 AM
I don't see the problem here. The nice thing about rival gangs is that they mostly kill each other.
Posted by: Bill Poser | July 5, 2008 11:26 AM
Caustic comparisons to the Crips and the McCoys aside, if Orlando,Fla can support Disney, Universal, and Sea World Nasheville shoul be able to support two Bible theme parks. The city is already a tourist mecca and it's a definite nominee for "Buckle on the Bible Belt."
Posted by: Bill in NC | July 5, 2008 11:38 AM
When the morons in the Green Party spoiled the 2,000 election, one of the (many weak) points they argued was that Al Gore couldn't even win his home state of Tennessee. My reply at the time was that Democrats could no longer expect to win in southern fundamentalist states like Tennessee. As someone who lived much of my life in the south, I can tell you that the only reason the south stuck with the Democrats as long as they did was because of a cultural tradition that wouldn't vote for the party of the "n@gger lover" Abraham Lincoln. It wasn't until the civil rights laws in the 60s that the south finally began moving away from the Democrats. In a radio broadcast from Savannah a few days before JFK was assassinated Paul Harvey made note of the strong Democratic Party affiliation in the south, and how the very conservative south was going to have to face up to the fact that the party wasn't singing their tune any longer. 40 years later, hayseeds still rule the south.
Posted by: soboco | July 5, 2008 12:16 PM
There may be signs of a slight chink in the armor of the republican stranglehold on the South. I heard a report a week or two ago that says that Obama is currently slightly ahead of McCain in Georgia. He's also polling even in Alabama, and close in Mississippi.
It's amusing to me that the right-wing talking heads point out that Obama is heavily favored among those voters who have at least some college education; the better educated, generally the higher the strenth of Obama. Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz et.al. seem to think that this is some sort of condemnation, as if the more educated a person is the dumber they are.
Posted by: Blaidd Drwg | July 5, 2008 1:27 PM
I'm thinking dumb and dumber.
Posted by: ed | July 5, 2008 1:50 PM
In the '90s there was a group that said they were going to build a Bible park in WA with a Noah's Ark simulator ride. Nothing came of it. I admit I was disappointed. How many of these Bible parks are announced and never come to fruition?
Posted by: jpf | July 5, 2008 2:03 PM
I think split and "Splitter!!"
Posted by: Ian H Spedding FCD | July 5, 2008 2:21 PM
Ed, you are right...this will not end well.
But it will be fun to watch.
Posted by: BobbyEarle | July 5, 2008 2:59 PM
"When the morons in the Green Party spoiled the 2,000 election..."
Twelve percent of Florida Democrats, which is about 200,000 voters, cast their ballot for George W. Bush in 2000. Contrast that the 97,000 votes Nader got in total statewide. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Donk collective sunk themselves in 2000, not Nader.
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | July 5, 2008 3:53 PM
"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
Posted by: grasshopper | July 5, 2008 5:43 PM
it's become amusing to hear folks blame a major party's political loss on a tiny, third party --- as if that other major party running hadn't a single thing to do with it. or, worse, as if the losing major party had some sort of preexisting claim on the votes cast for the third party, like the Greens (for instance) had gone vote-poaching on their betters' territory. sour grapes, sore losers.
Posted by: Nomen Nescio | July 5, 2008 5:49 PM
Whaddaya mean, it isn't going to end well? Sounds like lulz all round for the rest of us! It's no-lose.
Posted by: Cath the Canberra Cook | July 5, 2008 10:03 PM
Too bad they can't get the Creation Museum to move down there, too, and make it a three-way battle.
Posted by: MMOToole | July 5, 2008 10:19 PM
Just glad it's not my state!
Posted by: Rev. AJB | July 5, 2008 11:03 PM
Grasshopper, substitute "intellectuals" or maybe "scientists" for "romans"
Posted by: wazza | July 6, 2008 3:38 AM
Sorry to burst your bubble
You're not bursting any bubbles. Nader deliberately tried to swing the election -- and succeeded -- and Nader voters are and were morons, no matter how hard you spin.
Posted by: Calton Bolick | July 22, 2008 9:31 AM