American Bible Society to close its $60 million museum after 3 years - eviltoast

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.

  • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I wrestle with this one because let’s not pretend life was peaceful before religion - religion gave the structure that grew into us understanding those things are wrong. It’s now obsolete but for s time I think it was a net positive

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      A net positive for whom? The wealthy and powerful?

      Because so far your argument seems to be that Christian tradition in Europe kept knowledge alive… knowledge that had mostly been destroyed due to the Christianization and then collapse of the Western Roman Empire.