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Museum, that IS where religion should be, and OUT of our government!
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The only way I’d go is: 1) free admission; and 2) they promise not to kick me out for hysterical laughter.
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Hey–misleading headline. A short walk from the Mall is not on the Mall. Big difference.
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I wonder if Thomas Jefferson’s edited bible will be in there.
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I’d like to edit a bible to put in there…
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Actually, an honest museum looking at religious artifacts and the like would be interesting. I do not think that is what they are going for though.
I still do not get how the persecuted Christian in the US myth holds at all. Since Christians are still the majority by a fair bit and most the stories we hear the most freak out over are either lies or a result of some of the factions not understanding anything outside of their own bubble.
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Is there an opening date?
Kentucky’s Ark cark, er Park has hit a floating log or two.
This link show their blog pushing the new Gourd Patch. Can you imagine the excitement?
Note the overblown artwork and the meager construction:
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So they’re finally admitting that the Bible belongs in a museum, not in every courthouse in the nation?
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Well, given that the Bible was written in America, it’s only appropriate.
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The only thing I find objectionable has been this group’s attempt to establish their bible teaching curriculum in public schools. The rest? Meh.
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Waste of time and money. No doubt that initially, there will be interest in this boondoggery. As time goes on and people see it for what it is, the admission sales won’t be able to keep it afloat. No way. Christian nutjobs always believe that their message will be so appealing TO EVERYONE that it can’t help but to succeed.
The Greens, after all, litigated one of the most important religious
freedom cases in recent memory, and won the right to impose their
religious views on their 16,000 full-time employees—and countless othersemployed by businesses sharing the Greens’ religious views. They helped expand a federal statute intended to protect the rights of religious minorities to instead protect the rights of business owners who view their employees’ private actions as their religious business.
Ironically, I think that the more exposure these cretins get, the more people will turn away. Many Americans are turning away now. I don’t expect that mass exodus to slow down. This isn’t gong to help the Greens’ cause; quite the contrary, I think it will hasten the speed of Americans leaving institutionalized religion altogether.
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So weird.
Also, the Holocaust isn’t really a cautionary tale about the absence of religion - just ask all those Christians who thought they were fighting a crusade to protect bourgeois European Christianity against anti-Christian “Jewry” and “Godless Bolshevism.”
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It is far off the mall in a crap part of town that is mostly closed down evenings and weekends.
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I bet admission is something steep, and the the gift shop will be mandatory. Also that the museum tanks in not that many years.
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Yes, it’s a pretty bad part of town. The only saving grace for that area right now is the fish market.
The Green family will pump millions into this thing—it’s their baby, and they are committed to forcing their viewpoint on the rest of us.
They won’t let it die, unfortunately.
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Can never have too many monuments to man’s stupidity.
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Intersection of Church and State-
from the series, “Churches ad hoc: a divine comedy”,
http://members.efn.org/~hkrieger/church.htm
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What, no gaudy 20-foot flashing neon cross?