In Babylon on the Potomac recently, the brand new, $500 million Museum of the Bible had its grand opening. To be fair, by most accounts, the museum is well designed and executed, high tech and state of the art. What has many observers far more concerned are connections among the new attraction’s principal funders and the right wing. Here its mission becomes suspect, more political than religious, although with the right wing, it is always difficult to separate the two, each possessing a will to dominate. He deplores the fact that religious values “have been hijacked by extremists” who no more represent Jesus “than did the church authorities who backed slavery.”Rev.

Source: Huffington Post November 27, 2017 21:16 UTC