Sinking Noah's Ark Replicas

The terrible and cruel tail from the Bible about Noah's Ark has been whitewashed to children for generations. I suppose telling the story of people and animals who "escaped" the flood seems happy. Telling of drowning innocent children and pregnant women is conveniently left out. 

This appeal and the opportunity to sell tickets to visit replicas of the Ark are irresistible to con artists. One is Ken Ham in Kentucky. He made a promise to local governments in a poor rural area of Kentucky: Borrow money and give it to me. I will pay taxes back to you and you can pay off the bonds with it.

Then, Ham decided paying taxes was costing him money he wanted for himself. So he changed his corporation from a private one to a nonprofit that did not pay taxes. Local governments took him to court and lost. "God" won, local people lost.

Now there is a funny Ark story from Europe. Someone there had the same idea as Ham did in Kentucky, build a replica and charge people to go inside it. Unlike Kentucky, this sham had real animals in it. The Ark needed to be floated from port to port the keep up attendance. 

But, there was a problem. The crude vessel could not be steered accurately enough to miss some smaller boats moored along its path. Damage was done. Now, government in the Netherlands has declared the Ark unsafe to move. It needs to return to its home port for repairs. One wonders how such a holy enterprise could not be protected by the Almighty from these mistakes? 

I think it would be helpful if preachers from coast to coast would stand at their pulpits and say, "There was no flood or Noah's Ark." That would be followed up by removing it from all materials taught children in Sunday school. 

Of course this will not happen because Noah is a part of the myth that floats the Christian faith. If doubt comes up in Part A it might spread to Part B.