Sneak peek: D.C.s huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech but not a lot of Jesus

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The $500 million museum, chaired and largely funded by the conservative Christian family that owns Hobby Lobby, doesn’t say a word about the Bible’s views on sexuality or contraception. The museum doesn’t encourage visitors to take the Bible literally or to believe that the Bible has only one correct form. And on floor after gleaming floor of exhibitions, there is very little Jesus.

Much has changed in the years since the Greens began building the museum. Their company became a byword not just for craft supplies but also for a battle in the Supreme Court against all forms of mandatory contraception coverage for employees. The family’s lightning-fast acquisition of troves of historic artifacts wound up in federal court, landing them a $3 million fine for trafficking in thousands of smuggled goods.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/sneak-peek-dcs-huge-new-museum-of-the-bible-includes-lots-of-tech--but-not-a-lot-of-jesus/2017/10/16/1afe67c2-a94d-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.c4bb791a96ec&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[greymattermom]

1. What is it a museum of?

Middle east antiquities? Can't those be found in other museums?

[Historic NY]

2. Motion ride where people get sprayed..........

WTF. Anything to make a buck, these are the money changers in the Temple.

[DetlefK]

3. "Just try reading it." - The Bible looks worse if you actually read it.

I wonder if the museum delves into the warfare, rape and slavery that's depicted as justified in the Bible.


Pollinger said that originally, the museum planned to discuss historical evidence that demonstrates proof of the stories in the Bible. Eventually, the team decided to drop that idea;

Yeah, that's because there's no archeological evidence for anything that happened before King David/Solomon.




Jesus is also curiously not central to the museum’s presentation of the biblical story. Visitors walk through a multiroom saga of the Old Testament, and they can visit a re-creation of a 1st-century village in Galilee where actors will tell them what the villagers think of this controversial preacher Jesus. They can watch a movie about John the Baptist. But the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection is almost absent.

[hatrack]

4. Don't see how in hell this place is going to survive in DC

"Hey kids, do you want see the Air & Space Museum, dinosaurs at Natural History, or visit Six Flags Over Jesus?"

[Historic NY]

5. The movie version was horrible.....

too much violence.

[Initech]

6. Didn't they get caught smuggling a lot of ancient artifects out of Iraq?

Assholes.