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Pressie
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Message 1 of 41 (822038)
10-18-2017 4:34 AM


Apparently there's a new Bible Museum opening up in DC.
According to news reports it's the brain child of Steve Green of Hobby Lobby fame and financed by his family. The museum is described as flamboyant with eight floors and 430 000 square feet of floor space.
Ironically enough not much involves Jesus at all, but a depiction of the Virgin Mary features prominently. Neither the crucifixion nor the resurrection of Jesus is mentioned at all.
The museum will host one of the largest Torah collections in the world as well as a room depicting Noah's Ark with accompanying sounds of animals, etc.
Unfortunately the photo's I have come from an Afrikaans website. The heading of that article reads Bible Museum contains very little about Jesus.
Now conservative Christians are all up in arms about it. They don't want it to be called a Bible Museum, but something like a Jewish and Catholic Museum.
What's your take on it?
Religious forums please.
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Pressie
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Message 4 of 41 (822042)
10-18-2017 6:17 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Phat
10-18-2017 5:44 AM


s.It's basically Re: Cash Cow or Golden Calf?
Thanks. The "museum" is thus basically opened to write off some taxes.
The conservative protestant Christians are having heart attacks, though. To them the word "Bible" means 66 Books...not the 73 books of mainstream Catholic Bibles nor the 24 books of Mainstream Hebrew Bibles.

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Pressie
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Message 5 of 41 (822043)
10-18-2017 6:23 AM
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10-18-2017 5:44 AM


Re: Cash Cow or Golden Calf?
Phat writes:
David Green, 75, has a personal fortune estimated at 6.3 Billion Dollars
So, he's very poor compared to another more prominent person who claims to be worth 7 Billion.

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Pressie
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Message 7 of 41 (822046)
10-18-2017 6:52 AM
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10-18-2017 6:41 AM


Re: s.It's basically Re: Cash Cow or Golden Calf?
Maybe the problem is childhood indoctrination? I'm one of the persons who believed that the Mainstream Protestant Bibles are the only Bibles around. Till I met The Interwebs (as my mother calls it).

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Pressie
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Message 10 of 41 (822051)
10-18-2017 7:24 AM
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10-18-2017 7:01 AM


Re: s.It's basically Re: Cash Cow or Golden Calf?
Yes, but the Calvinistic Christian Church I was raised in has changed it's mind rather rapidly. They accept science nowadays. Maybe it's because thay lost their young, educated (and therefore higher income members) too rapidly for them to keep on going the way they did? At their peak they had around 3 million members. It hasn't worked for them, though. The whole organisation is has been loosing, on average, around 20 000 members a year. For twenty years. It doesn't bode well for the future.

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Pressie
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Message 12 of 41 (822053)
10-18-2017 7:36 AM
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10-18-2017 6:58 AM


PaulK writes:
I wonder how many of the exhibits were smuggled into the country or bought from looters.
I've been wondering about that, too. I just don't want to put it into words on the "interwebs" as I don't have 6.3 Billion Dollars to pay to lawyers to try and defend myself in a US court.

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Pressie
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Message 29 of 41 (823658)
11-15-2017 5:23 AM
Reply to: Message 24 by New Cat's Eye
11-13-2017 11:10 AM


Hope you're not planning on paying the entrance fees and make charlatans richer...Wait for the free entrance days.
According to plans (and booked flights!) I should be in DC on January 15. Would check it out from the outside unless they allow me in for free.
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Pressie
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Message 38 of 41 (823734)
11-16-2017 6:28 AM
Reply to: Message 35 by jar
11-15-2017 2:57 PM


Re: More from N.P.R.
I have to disagree with you here, jar.
jar writes:
Now compared to the God of Genesis 6&7 Hitler was a ruddy saint.
Comparing Genesis 6&7 and the Gods of the various Christian Holy Books Hitler was a Holy Saint.
Anyways, I'll be in Portland, Maine, for around 2 weeks after that. The first week involves a conference and then the second week will involve an excursion to look at the rocks of the area. I know it's going to be very, very cold, but could you Amcan persons give me any indication on the non-tourist attractions involving geology and other interesting features?
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