Fake Dead Sea Scrolls Dupe Rich, Anti-Gay Evangelicals
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They built a big museum – just so you could see 'um!
Millions upon millions spent for fake Dead Sea Scrolls and other ephemera, by that Hobby Lobby family, supporters of recent anti-gay (oh, I mean freedom of religious expression) legal efforts.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/us/bible-museum-fakes/index.html
Opening today, the new Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, boasts 430,000 square feet of (alleged illegally imported, and highly questionable) "artifacts."
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The antiquities market is full of fakes.
Private religious "museums" tend to buy the stuff that suits their narrative.
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The antiquities market is full of fakes.
Private religious "museums" tend to buy the stuff that suits their narrative.
That's true, raphjd. And there's a growing number of religion museums in the U.S.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_museums_in_the_United_States
A number of these museums examine their religious subjects with some degree of objectivity.
But imho, that new Museum of the Bible in DC is a fine example of a fundamentalist Evangelical family with big bucks, opening a museum designed primarily to proselytize, even if the artifacts are fake and ilegally imported.
Visitors to the hard-line Christian museums also get to hear "fun facts," such as the world is only 6,000 years old, based on adding up the "lineages" found in the OT. :crazy2:
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Nothing surprising. The whole religion is based on a fake artefact, the bible.
