Bible Park to Add Adult Section?

Bible Park USA hopes to wow visitors with interactive Bible stories, including the parting of the Red Sea, the destruction of Jericho, and Noah’s Ark, complete with costumed “animals.”

Unfortunately, the proposed 300-acre theme park is wandering like the Israelites in the desert after its rejection by the Rutherford County Commission. Promoters now say they are scoping out locations in Wilson County, hoping to find a friendlier place for the Ark to land.

Now E. Buzz Barr, the longtime Music City adult entertainment promoter, has an idea that will incorporate the Bible Park with adult entertainment, all on the site of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds.

“Everybody knows the fairgrounds needs a shot in the arm, everybody knows the Bible Park needs a place to go—and I’m here to help make the whole thing a success,” Barr says.

Barr’s formula for success, though, might give some Bible Park attendees pause—he intends to create a racy “adults-only” section of the kid-friendly park, devoted to some of the seamier incidents in the good book.

“I’ve never been a big Bible scholar, but I’ve been looking into it, and I’ve got to tell you—there’s a lot more in there than Noah’s Ark and parting the Red Sea,” he says. “We can start with a fully nude Adam and Eve revue, including some pretty graphic ‘be fruitful and multiply’ action. We can have a David and Bathsheba living diorama that will knock your socks off. We can show in detail why Sodom and Gomorrah were so bad.

“This will be the most scripturally based adult show around. I don’t see how anybody could object—this is all stuff that’s in the Bible.”

Some are objecting, though. “To place this smut side by side with Bible stories for children—well, that’s just obscene,” one local minister says. “Adam and Eve may have been naked, but they didn’t parade around for tourists for two shows an evening, with weekend matinees.”

But Barr says he is going forward with his plans. “They haven’t even heard about my living ‘Song of Solomon’ theatrical production,” he says. “Man, that is going to pull in the faithful like you wouldn’t believe!”