Saudi Arabia Wants Tourists. It Didn't Expect Christians (Evangelicals)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-christian-tourists.html
https://archive.ph/9cMbe

Saudi Arabia Wants Tourists. It Didn’t Expect Christians.
In a fluid new age for the conservative Islamic kingdom, evangelicals have become some of its most enthusiastic visitors.
By Vivian Nereim
June 24, 2023

The caravan of five Toyota Land Cruisers raced across Saudi Arabia’s rocky desert, weaving onto a highway so new it was not on the map. At the cleft of sea that splits the kingdom from Egypt, they stopped on a barren beach. Fifteen tourists spilled out and gathered around Joel Richardson, a Kansas preacher.

As the sun dipped below the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula — hazy across the water in Egypt — Mr. Richardson asked the group to imagine standing on the other side at the moment of the biblical Exodus, fleeing from Pharaoh’s army with Moses, when the sea ripped in half.

He opened a Bible, donned his glasses and began to recite. “Who among the gods is like you, oh Lord?” he said. “Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?”

Two Florida retirees, a Colorado pharmacist, an Idaho bookkeeper and an Israeli archaeologist listened intently.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. They should have brought Subarus with them.

[LiberalFighter]

2. And they paid how much?

[dalton99a]

5. Probably $5K for the tour

[intrepidity]

3. Maybe they'll all flock there and build their "new Jerusalem"

and then they become the Saudi's problem?

No doubt the Bushes and Trump had something to do with this.

[prodigitalson]

4. they deserve one anothers' company

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Oh, the Wahabis are gonna LOVE THIS . . . . .

We got 9/11 from just having American military bases on Saudi soil.

[HAB911]

7. You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometime
You'll find
You get what you deserve

[Deep State Witch]

8. Are They There To Get Pointers

On how to restrict women's rights?

[NowISeetheLight]

9. Iran

Can we start a go fund me to send the evangelicals to Iran next?

[Hotler]

10. Some-bitch, these fucker are everywhere. Religion is like a penis,

it's great to have one and be proud of it but, you don't wave it around in public and, you don't try and shove it down peoples throat. And these asshole wonder why nobody likes them.