counterattraction

Noun

 * 1) Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.
 * 2) * 1956, January 31st : Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:
 * 3) * 1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0395430852
 * The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.