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 |  Subject: New “Museum Of The Bible” Avoids Biblical Sexuality, Refrains From Scripture Authority, And Has “Very Little To Do With Jesus”  Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:41 am | |
| IS WASHINGTON POST CORRECT? Say D.C.’s Huge New “Museum Of The Bible” Avoids Biblical Sexuality, Refrains From Scripture Authority, And Has “Very Little To Do With Jesus”
October 22, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
 Senior software developer Donnie Richardson does testing in the area where visitors to the Museum of the Bible can write on a large interactive tablet table. Those messages will be shown on the big screen in the background (featuring a panoramic photo of Jerusalem). (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) The Museum of the Bible, a massive new institution opening next month just south of the Mall, is just as notable for what it includes — vivid walk-through re-creations of the ancient world, one of the world’s largest private collections of Torahs, a motion ride that sprays water at you, a garden of biblical plants — as for what it leaves out. 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. (READ MORE) |
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