So I was just reading an article in the news and came across this...
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/museum-of-the-bib...
What is everyones thoughts?
Mine was a feeling of despair in that $500m was wasted on a grandiose spectacle to further one person's agenda.
I wonder how many homeless people could be homed and given a chance to work using that money...
How many povety stricken children could be given support with essential needs...
How very Christian of Mr Green...
And I find it doubly frustrating as my fiancee who is mildly religious(Church of England) has spent her time of late in building a large care package for a local girl we all know who is only 5 and in a horrendous condition in hospital with a failing immune system and various other ailments... she has spent her free time to help another with nothing of religion ever mentioned... just simply doing a good turn.
I sit back and think, there are certainly wonderful people in this world, but organised religion is woeful.
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We should stand on the sidewalk in front of this farce and hand out free copies of "The Age of Reason".
"The purpose of the museum, Green said, is to educate, not evangelize."
"Bible" and "educate" don't belong in the same sentence (or on the same planet, really).
As for the $500 million, that could support and educate thousands of impoverished Third World kids or pay for a couple of million cataract operations. It could also buy one hideous painting dubiously attributed to Leonardo.
There's actually a Gospel story about this. Well, roughly. Helping the poor is not the only good thing to do.
See John 12:1-8.
Point is, Mr. Green chose to spend his money on this museum and we shouldn't judge him for not giving it to another cause we think is better.
@JoC: "we shouldn't judge him for not giving it to another cause we think is better"
Well Jesus said we shouldn't judge others, but I never met a Christian yet who wasn't judgmental and condemnatory.
If Green wants to waste his money on a museum for dunderheads, good luck to him, but I reserve the right to judge and express an opinion.
You should get around more if you haven't met a Christian who isn't judgmental and condemnatory.
But I agree with you. Point taken. A lot of Christians can be judgmental.
JoC: "You should get around more..."
Well I don't get around in Christian circles much, but I hear them braying on TV during every news bulletin recently. Australia has just had a referendum about same-sex marriage. During and after after the campaign, so-called Christians have been vilifying gay people and spreading lies. Despite all this judgmental crap, the yes vote won.
@JoC It's not about being judgemental and condemnatory, we're just comparing moral standards, a thing that you, I mean believers, tend to do a lot, this forum being a piece of evidence for that.
And I find deeply immoral and disturbing (and so-not "what Jesus tales teach", I'm amazed you defend this) to spend one's wealth on that, rather than on deeds that really improve people's well-being.
P.S. Happy to read you again, @Randomhero.
you paint this guy’s action as a total waste of money. Should people not set up museums at all? Of course not! Museums, libraries, beautiful churchs improve people’s well being in different ways. And some probably indirectly.
One example I could think off the top of my head is if this museum makes money which, a portion of that can go to the poor, he’s actually set up a continuously giving machine, as it were.
@JoC
Have you any proof of that?
@JoC
Fuck that. This kind of brainwashing is actually detrimental to humanity! For christians they should view it as taking away money from christians for self-glorification.
We are not judging his decision. We are criticizing his decision
To me it's a sad display of ignorance. Like Ken Ham's ark lunacy, it's yet another attempt to animate and impose the bible upon the public. Calling it a museum is an attempt to give the bible factual credibility, not to mention a tax free status. Green is just another religious crack pot.
Then there's Chick-Fil-A's owner Dan Cathy who also has a warm spot for his god. https://atheisthelp.wordpress.com/tag/chick-fil-a/
I see nothing in the article of the OP that says this is some crack pot's attempt to force religion on people. It's a museum. If you're interested, go. If not, don't go. People still have their free will.
"Calling it a museum is an attempt to give the bible factual credibility,"
When I read the article (in the OP) it didn't actually seem that way. Like it or not, the Bible is actually a powerful book. Some people have used its words for good. And some for evil like justifying slavery.
I have a rather large contention against this 'museum' and personally i think it should never have been allowed.
the reason why is simply because it exhibits artefacts from that particular era and by doing so, giving credence to the possibility that the bible is a fact. this has never been proven and will never be put under scrutiny because it will fail to pass.
so much of the various holy books are ridiculous and out right fabrications, it shouldn't be allowed to promote itself in such a way. keep it in the churches and away from actual education.
The Bible, whether you like it or not, is a part of human history. If anything, I see this museum as a human history museum. I believe the article even mentioned that some Americans used Bible verses to justify slavery.
What I suppose they’re goal is at least in that part is to stress that the words of the Bible can be twisted to support immoral acts. Of course atheists will remove the word “twisted” from my statement above but isn’t that a conversation worth having? And one we need to avoid the mistakes of the past?
@Joc: "It's a museum"
I've been to the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, and V&A in London, the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, the Louvre in Paris, Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, even the Vatican Museum in Rome.
These are real museums dedicated to art and culture and knowledge and science. Green's so-called museum of the bible is an insult to real museums, a propaganda tool dedicated to a dirty book from the Bronze Age.