Is religion a museum piece?

[crimsonrainflower]

wow, this is beautiful. i will visit this museum first chance i get. hats off to the founders. don't be discouraged. it's a great service to humanity that you're doing. there will always be ups and downs.

[mrdeimos50]

haha i love that they broke a shiva statue the god of destruction among other things pretty silly shiva probly loved it

[seanThree16]

Female genital mutilation...how can someone argue FOR that? Fucking savages.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

5:00

FUCK, why attack a monument?

[dizzythegreat]

wow i really kinda wanna go there.

[Brainmold]

I like the elephant boy!

[harryguitarjackson]

God has no faith nor colour.Simple minds see simple things,green celtic,blue rangers.Its true.They who seek not the Lord as as beast's in the feild. I love celtic and i love rangers,and i love you.

[prokkets]

Wow this is lib terrorist propoganda.We need 2 fight the iranins in iran so we dont have 2 fight thm hre.U libs need 2 b detaind untl ucan prove u r not a teorist.If any iraqi tries to take my FREEDOM Iwill blow up his cave cmd cntr.IranNchina have been stckpling WMDs2 use aginst us an our Israeli friends in th form of a mushroom cloud in th global wr n terror.Whn th final nuclear bttle comes to our home streets we need world govt. an hive mind and every1 get microchip so prs bush cn kep us safe

[dizzythegreat]

Wow, you are an evil, horrible person!

Have a nice day.

[Xhrome]

i agree with variablast, religion is pretty much proven a bunch of bullshit.

[StudentatWar]

proven by who?

[Clausfarre]

If you put forward a claim you need to provide the evidence, not the other way around. If such evidence can not be made available then we are dealing with beliefs and not fact. Such is the case with religion and it should therefore exist outside the realm of the physical and scientific world.

[oldphoque]

I am extremely agnostic so don`t be harsh or swayed. I simply see a place where history happened. All religions have holes especially their Dogma.

[Rhonda9]

I found this was a very important video.

[willmed]

To what extent should we study only the "best" of a tradition, whether that be in its devotional writing, its art or its styles of worship?

[willmed]

What drives people to attack religious artefacts? (Both the painting Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali and the eighteenth-century sculpture of Shiva have been damaged by visitors who violently objected to them. Other objections have come from an aesthetic position: the Museum displays not only world-class works of art, but also devotional items that to some might seem tacky, but which have meaning for their users.)

[Rhonda9]

What drives people to attack an object/artifact is their emotional/personal perspective of what the symbols represent from a superstitious level. They see them as a real danger or evil.

[willmed]

To what extent should such a museum bow to pressure from traditions, either to change emphasis, or to increase their representation? Are judgements about "balance" really covert judgements about value or importance?

[willmed]

Do the curators have a duty to represent traditions as they wish to be represented, or as they are understood by outside experts?

[willmed]

Is a museum of religion appropriate? Do religious objects/ideas retain their meaning in a museum setting? Doesn't putting religion in a museum suggest that it is no longer relevant?

[cheezeba11]

I believe museums can have things in them that are still relevant, museums have the original computers and cars, and yet we still use cars and computers. I also think that Belief has been and will always be a crutial part of society, I don't believe in god, but I believe that those with religion can see it as a be all and end all, throughout history religion has meant life or death.

[Rhonda9]

The museum was attentive in accommodating the placement of all the artifacts/objects in respect to the religious perspective of those who would view them.

[willmed]

Is the museum an example of an insider or an outsider perspective? Is there another way of categorizing its interpretative stance?

[willmed]

Exercise

Please watch the video now. After you have watched it, think about the questions below. Don't try to answer them all; choose one or two that you find interesting, and spend a few minutes thinking about them. Then try to think about your chosen questions again from the point of view of someone whose perspective on religion is very different from your own.