The museum created by the American Bible Society in July 2021 said it would be open to visitors until March 28. The Christian ministry nonprofit that translates Bibles and sends them around the world has recently been besieged with challenges including layoffs, funding troubles, and five CEO changes within two years.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    While I wouldn't have wanted to support the place,

    a collection of historic Bibles, including William Penn’s own

    would have actually been interesting to see. For all the harm done in the name of Christianity, there is also a lot of amazing artwork and historic significance tied up with it. It's just better done in an actual museum and not a religious nutjob propaganda space.

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    If it isn't history, it is still art that illicits an emotional reaction from both supporters and detractors. In this case it's like an art museum full of those avant garde shapes that no one understands but some say it speaks to them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I still get unreasonably annoyed about that damn toilet. Because even the guy who sent it in was just being that pretentious art student who has to turn it into a debate when the layperson says "that's not art, that's a toilet."

    Literally the guy submitted it originally to purity test the gallery curators on if they would be "anything can be art" enough for his liking.

    It was a literal shit post to start drama with his colleagues and art students are still worshipping the piss he probably christened it the water fountain with decades later.

    Because these people can never seem to accept that "this doesn't move me at all, what's eliciting an emotional response is you trying to start a fight with me over it like I'm stupid for not being moved by this." is an entirely valid response to their art.

    It's like the baby philosophy students who will go out of their way to verbally assault you for suggesting looking for something to throw on the trolley track instead of agreeing that there is any real moral character to be teased out from the completely realistic and grounded in the real world which animates our real world moral values scenario which involves an infinitely long train track extending into a blank featureless void and a random number of civilians tied to a fork in the track by an unknown force and absolutely nothing in the scenario is present to interact with but a lever which despite all other featurelessness of the scene is somehow able to switch the direction of the fork.

    You may have noticed by now that I reserve a special level of ire for wannabe intellectuals who throw a fit when their pop-smart-people references either don't land or turn out to not hold as much intellectual water as they want it to for ego inflating purposes.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    These people just don't get it. Very few religious people actually care about the religion. They care about using it to feel better about themselves. They don't read the holy books. To make a place they would want to go to, it would have to have VIP access if you have a letter from your pastor, and be all about how great you are for believing and much better than nonbelievers you are. But I guess the optics on that aren't the same.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Actually reading the damn book for real produces either atheists or screwballs who either abandon church based worship altogether for personal worship or who end up founding a whole new denomination that will go on to be dominated by the people who use religion to feel better about themselves.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    I wonder how many needy people could be fed for all that money...

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In a statement to The Inquirer on Saturday, the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center cited the pandemic and “structural limitations” as some of the reasons for the closing. A spokesperson for the American Bible Society would not elaborate on the closing beyond that statement.

    Or just, yknow, the ineffable will of God.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Was anyone else hoping it was the Hobby Lobby funded one that bought fake antiquities?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was hoping it was that batshit insane creation museum in Kentucky run by equally batshit Ken "there were velociraptors and t-rexes on the ark" Hamm

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hahahahahahahahahah

    And another one

    And another one

    And another one bites the dust

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They shouldn't allow hate museums about hate books that teach people it's OK to hate, because of religion.

    What a waste of time, effort, and money. That's what religion is. Just a waste.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The problem isn't that someone can start a museum about something stupid. It's a private endeavor and they can do what they want. The problem is that, as a religious organization, we're essentially helping fund them through tax exemption.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Coulda got a pretty fly G6 and some cocaine for that money, what were they thinking?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That was just seed money. They were shooting for several G6's - one for each founder - and a metric shitton of cocaine.

    You'll never be a real grifter unless you set your sights higher. Play the long game; stop thinking rookie numbers.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    The lord works in mysterious ways...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Oh no! Now where are people going to go to get their Disneyfied understanding of the most translated and published book in history?

    But more to the point, what is the NEXT religious-themed grift coming round the mountain?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    They think the Bible hasn't already been translated into every language?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It’s definitely been translated into the most used languages, but there are a bunch more that are being worked on still.

    Here’s an infographic on it from another org: https://www.wycliffe.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023_Infographic-Large_EN.pdf

    Looks like the way they calculate it, 80% of people in the world have access to a full translation of the Bible in their language.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    “Structural limitations”? What were they trying to do?

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