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there is a baffling array of touch-screens and tablets, modern-day interactives and glossy timelines.
.. overall the museum eschews any difficult engagement with issues of the day. A timeline of the Bible in U.S. history conveniently ends in 1963; its role in our debates on sexuality, contraception and abortion are pointedly left undiscussed.
.. Christianity in America has been reduced to more of a cultural identity than a way of life.
.. A cultural Christianity that reveres religious trappings and neglects their requirements is exactly the sort that props up figures such as Ten Commandments-toting, allegedly teen-molesting Senate candidate Roy Moore.
.. “Half a billion dollars on a giant museum of the Bible? It’s a very American enterprise,”
.. The Museum of the Bible touts itself as nonsectarian and apolitical, but it’s obviously meant to serve as a stake in the ground, a glitzy signpost to indicate that biblical values remain foundational in the United States.
.. Promoting the Bible is enough, apparently — no need to engage with its demands.