Hobby Lobby Pres Smuggling Rare Artifacts? What?
 

Hobby Lobby accused of hypocrisy amid smuggling case - SFGate

Rare artifacts from war torn Iraq smuggled? Not hearing much about this yet. Interesting.

That's not very Christian.

This surprises you?

Sarcasm. I hate that store, Christian or not.

Yea, they got caught buying looted artifacts from terrorists. The were fined, but a billionaire getting a few million fine is no big deal for them. Hopefully the artifacts will go to a secure museum and be returned some day if the area is ever secure from daesh.

It was all over the news yesterday ...

they should have left them there and let ISIS destroy them, just like AQ and others do. spend all that money to save artifacts, obaama wouldn't have done it.

The real problem is they paid like 1.6 million for them, and most likely it was Daesh selling them. They understand selling the items for cash rather than destroying them. Either way the tablets are gone and they terrorists have a big payday.

Man, I need to dig up some rocks with chicken scratches on em, put a towel on my head, an see what I kin get fer em!

ISIS made a bundle off of them.

This is a crazy story, I can't believe it's not getting more coverage.

I need a case for a 917 engine.

find one
I heard our host may have one

rent the unit scan it
and make another

it was 1960's tech after all
and far eazyer today with scans and CNC and 3D-printing

btw I wonder if any 917 has number matching anything after many race use ?

plastic-carbon body over sized motor 6 speed in a 67S is my dream
not some old car with the correct digits on the old worn out bits
on skinny ''correct tyres''

Did they buy them on Sunday?

HL buying them was the best thing that would happen to them, otherwise they would get destroyed or end up in some collection and never ever be seen again.

Dean,

Problem with people buying them is now the terrorists have funding, as much as I hate to see history destroyed, I would rather they didn't get the money- I realize it's a slippery slope as someone else might just buy them too, so money is received either way. One of those questions that might not have an answer?

I wonder if any would care if they sold aborted baby parts on the black market. (shrug)

...and got millions in govt funding along the way.

They also got caught importing some of the tiles valued for customs at a buck each.

So "though shalt not steal" is more of a guideline than an absolute?

Does that mean, depending on the circumstances, I can covet my neighbors wife?

Are all 10 really just "recommendations"?

Consider them mere suggestions...ideas to be bantied about...musings.

Steal? What did they steal?

Are you going to claim ignorance on the destruction of everything Christian (including people) that had been going on in Iraq?

You are confused because you take it literally.

The 10 Commandments were moral code.

Brush up on your Leviticus, try 19:11.

As to the rest of your post, it seems you are agree with me, Gods word is not absolute, just suggestions that we are free to ignore if we believe we are justified.

The hobby lobby guy fancies himself a modern day lord Elgin. The sad fact is that collectors like this are the only reason much of the early classical antiquities survived.

The money potentially going to islamists is the only argument against it.

I wonder how much Hobby Lobby paid per American serviceman that ISIS killed with the proceeds.

Compared to the hundreds of millions Obama gave the Iranians? Probably not that much.

Good argument. Assuming that HL paid ISIS for the artifacts. Did they?

confused? No. Simply pointing to the straw man you built by changing the definition of what happened.