Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
by wpietri on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:00PM
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Your theory is that people are always honest about their motives? The guy behind this is the world's largest benefactor to evangelical causes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2012/09/18/david-g...
I read it as very much a move in the culture war. It's not a museum about religious texts in general. It's very much a sectarian enterprise, whatever the PR people write.
Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
by justinator on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:21PM
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Does it pass any sniff test that they've built a $500 million museum about, "The Bible" in the shadow of the Capitol b/c of the goodness of the heart?
Like, they're just really that into the Bible? It's not like it's out of print; that it needs to be reacquainted with.
In what way/shape/form does The Bible have any geographical relevance to Washington D.C.?
> The museum says it is nonsectarian, non-political, and that it does not proselytize.[4][5] The former president of the museum, Cary Summers, said the goal was to "reacquaint the world with the book that helped make it, and let the visitor come to their own conclusions. ... We don't exist to tell people what to believe about it".[5]