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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight Wing Museum of the Bible busted for Lying for Jesus.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/busted-dead-sea-scroll-exhibit-at-right-wing-supported-museum-of-the-bible-is-filled-with-fakes/The National Geographic revealed in a story on Friday that what the Museum of the Bible has claimed are fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls are a complete fraud.
The museum, founded by Hobby Lobby CEO Steve Green, already faced problems when they were forced to forfeit thousands of cuneiform texts from Iraq, and pay a $3 million fine for illicit importation, reported Politico.
Now the museum is back in the news as independent researchers funded by the museum announced that all of the 16 fragments are forgeries. The museum says that they were duped by the collector and Green, as well as biblical scholars.
The Museum of the Bible is trying to be as transparent as possible, says CEO Harry Hargrave. Were victimswere victims of misrepresentation, were victims of fraud.
cos dem
(903 posts)Mr Hargrave, I have some very bad news for you...
DFW
(54,370 posts)"It Ain't Necessarily So..........."
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)lying about the fragments being fraudulent so they don't have to give them up and pay millions in fines.
magicarpet
(14,145 posts)You are perpetrators of a fraud in order that you could fleece and victimize the masses who believe in the buy-bull.
BComplex
(8,049 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them. - Martin Luther
Nature Man
(869 posts)Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)No need to hire independent researchers.
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Christianity/Bible honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by theft and fraud by the Hobby Lobby Museum..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029293684
http://www.newsweek.com/hobby-lobby-iraq-antiquities-evangelicals-632434
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/07/hobby-lobby-slapped-3-million-fine
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141964644
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12316120