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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
A team of workers at Art Fraud Insights, LLC, has found that all of the Dead Sea Scroll (DSS) fragments housed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. are fake. They have published their findings on their company website.
The Dead Sea scrolls are a collection of scrolls found in the Qumran Caves near the shore of the Dead Sea. They were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1946. Since that time, the scrolls have been identified as ancient Jewish manuscripts created over the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. They are housed in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum.
[...] the team [at Art Fraud Insights, LLC] [...] found that the material makeup of the collection did not match that of the original DSS fragments—they appeared to be ancient leather rather than parchment. More importantly, they had found that modern ink had been used to print words on the old material fragments—it had pooled on the old dried leather. The group also found evidence of clay mineral dust similar to that found in the Qumran Caves that had been applied after the inking had been done—evidence of an attempt to cover up the fake materials below. The final verdict: the fragments were not only fake, but had been created for the purpose of deception.
It is still not known who went to such great lengths to create the fake DSS fragments.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @09:51PM (11 children)
The Museum of the Bible has been knowingly and illegally collecting this stuff for many years and was only relatively recently called out for it [soylentnews.org]. Given how aggressive they had been on the black market, it is no surprise that they could have been marked as "suckers" and susceptible to this kind of fraud.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @10:07PM
At least the Ark in Kaintucky, discovered by the "Assholes in Genesis" folks, is the actual, real, original Ark that Noah used to go booze crusing in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @10:08PM (7 children)
Indeed. It would be really nice if people claiming to be Christian weren't such gullible assholes.
(Score: 5, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday March 18 2020, @10:25PM (4 children)
It would also be nice if they didn't continue to make up stories and try to pass them off as real history.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:17AM (3 children)
Or say, "I am Holy Holy, a man of God!" and then molest little freaking kids!
Or rip people off by saying"If I don't raise $X millions of dollars, God will take me from this Earth!"
Or...yeah, all the rest of the 'Christians' that talk the talk but can't even walk a straight line to Hell.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:44PM (2 children)
Jim Bakker. [wikipedia.org] Remember him? [wikipedia.org]
Missouri Sues Televangelist Jim Bakker For Selling Fake Coronavirus Cure [npr.org]
Televangelist Jim Bakker sued for selling fake coronavirus cure [cbsnews.com]
Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker busted selling fake coronavirus treatments [crimeonline.com]
After all, selling fake cures is the Christian thing to do! 2 Peter 2:2-3
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 19 2020, @11:02PM (1 child)
"In response to the scandal, Falwell called Bakker a liar, an embezzler, a sexual deviant, and "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2,000 years of church history."[38] On CNN, Swaggart told Larry King that Bakker was a "cancer in the body of Christ".[34] In February 1988, Swaggart became involved in a sex scandal of his own after being caught visiting prostitutes in New Orleans.[39]"
Yuuu-uup....sounds about riiiight! Talk that talk, walk however da fuck you want.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 20 2020, @02:29PM
Swaggart, against the advice of his denomination, did not go through a program for recovering fallen pastors. Then later he was caught in a 2nd sex scandal which was his undoing.
Jesus in Matt 23 has plenty of bad things to say about hypocrisy. That chapter appears to be the harshest words he said. And directed at religious leaders.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Touché) by driverless on Thursday March 19 2020, @05:48AM
Isn't that a prerequisite?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:32PM
People claiming to be Christians? people who ARE Christians have their little rule book and one of the rules says do not bear false witness, so they are off the topic. People who CLAIM to be it, have a motive for telling a lie, and by mere projection they suspect everyone. Not the definition of gullible is it?
As for me, I got here to see how soon the section would resist to token anti-christian reasonings, not surprised so far.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Wednesday March 18 2020, @11:11PM
Religious bigots get conned. Boo fuckin' hoo.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @09:39AM
Funded by the Fundie owner of Hobby Lobby, who don't want to pay for your whorish lady parts medicines. But will pay for faked artifacts from the holey lands. Like, a "Pearl of Great Price", or the "James, brother of Jesus" bonebox that was on offer not to long ago. We just need to convince them that there is an alien (divine) spaceship hiding in the tail of C 2017 T4 PANSTARRS, and get them to all drink Strychnine to board the ship, just like Heaven's Gate!! All Abooard!!