By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson more from Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
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It turns out that the Green family – the owners of Hobby Lobby – have been under investigation for the past four years for illicitly importing Iraq’s cultural heritage. In other words, stealing artifacts like a modern-day Indiana Jones.
The Daily Beast is reporting that the Greens got busted importing several hundred small cuneiform tablets in 2011, tablets purchased in Iraq and thousands of years old – and “described on their FedEx shipping label as samples of ‘hand-crafted clay tiles'” – destined for the Hobby Lobby corporation compound:
These tablets, like the other 40,000 or so ancient artifacts owned by the Green family, were destined for the Museum of the Bible, the giant new museum funded by the Greens, slated to open in Washington, D.C., in 2017. Both the seizure of the cuneiform tablets and the subsequent federal investigation were confirmed to us by Cary Summers, the president of the Museum of the Bible.
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Well, nothing says Religious Right like a museum filled with stolen property dedicated to a book – the Bible – which says “Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15). You remember when the Greens fought for the right to deny women birth control even though the Bible does not prohibit birth control. There are a lot of things the Bible does prohibit but only a few made it into the top ten, and stealing is one of them.
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