The newest museum to visit next time you’re in Washington D.C. held its opening gala this evening, and officially opens to the public this weekend ~ The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story ~
 

When the Museum of the Bible opens this weekend, it will set a new standard for how this country’s museums fuse entertainment and education. The $500 million, privately funded project is as large as some of the Smithsonian’s premier attractions, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It is rich in content, stocked with historic treasures and carefully plotted to appeal to audiences of all ages.
 
 
It brings to museum design the sophisticated marketing intelligence of the Oklahoma City-based Green family, who have used a fortune made from the Hobby Lobby retail chain to promote evangelical Christian causes. Their latest venture is a museum that offers a one-stop-shopping cultural experience, with history, art, architecture, theater and music conveniently packaged under one roof.

Of course the very secular (atheist?) Washington Post wants everyone to know ~

Despite claims that it would be nonsectarian, the organization’s original mission was explicitly evangelical, to “inspire confidence in the absolute authority and reliability of the Bible,” according to a 2010 federal nonprofit filing.

You mean the very confidence that sustained America’s founding fathers as they were fighting for their liberty and establishing our Constitutional Republic?

 

 
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from, vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war proceed from their despising or neglecting of the precepts contained in the Bible.
 
~ Noah Webster (“Father” of public education in America)

 
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