Opinion: The Museum of the Bible is an intellectual travesty. Here’s why.
Beneath a gleaming exterior, new D.C. museum disguises history with omission
Its richly-textured bricks suggest age. Yet its dazzling atrium crowns the building with the apparent gleaming legitimacy of the future.
Three blocks south of the National Mall’s complex of Smithsonian institutions, a new museum has opened its doors. And though it has been deliberately sited to be in close proximity to those public, free museums, the message it bears does not seek to stimulate thought. It delivers an archaic political statement through means that disorient and confuse. And as such, it is the emblematic symbol of our dumbed-down, Twitter-rant world.
Welcome to the Museum of the Bible. Its $500 million cost was mostly borne by the fabulously wealthy and evangelical owners of the Hobby Lobby craft supply chain. In this case, they have crafted what can be generously called an ‘experience,’ and what can be more accurately described as ‘Christian-Manifest-Destiny-fantasy-world.’
An adventure 2000 years in the making
When you pass through the Museum of the Bible’s doors, you are greeted by newfangled security measures that seem straight out of the…
