Related to my earlier post, some asked why Hobby Lobby was acquiring antiquities. Turns out they seem to think it's a way to prove the King James version of the bible is "the truth". The Atlantic article is long but so so good. Some notable excerpts:
"The earlier a fragment can be dated, the argument goes, the more likely it is to preserve the original words of the divinely inspired biblical authors, and the more significant it therefore becomes to lay Christians: from God’s lips to their ears, skipping the 2,000 years of history and human error in between...
The thousands of artifacts they have so rapidly acquired could become merely the pictures that accompany this story, which, put simply, is this: The text of the Bible has essentially never changed, and its authority is timeless...
...he [Green] made clear to us in our conversation, [the audience for the Museum of the Bible] includes this country’s political leaders. “They need to know,” he said, “that this book speaks to every area of life and it has advice: It advises how a good government should be … Our Founding Fathers unabashedly looked to the Bible in building this nation, so why wouldn’t it be right for our legislators to know our history of our government?”"
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5/9/21 The Antiquities Act of 1906
The Antiquities Act of 1906, is an act that was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by presidential proclamation, create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. The Act has been used more than a hundred times since its passage.
History
The Antiquities Act was signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt during his second term in office. The act resulted from concerns about protecting mostly prehistoric Native American ruins and artifacts -- collectively termed "antiquities" -- on federal lands in the West, such as at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Removal of artifacts from these lands by private collectors, "pot hunters," had become a serious problem by the end of the 19th century. In 1902, Iowa Congressman John F. Lacey, who chaired the House Committee on the Public Lands, traveled to the Southwest with the rising anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett, to see for himself the extent of the pot hunters' impact. His findings, supported by an exhaustive report by Hewett to Congress detailing the archaeological resources of the region, provided the necessary impetus for the passage of the legislation.
Since the Antiquities Act became law, all but four presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, have chosen to enlarge or dedicate new national monuments. President Obama established more monuments than any President before him, with 26. The previous record was held by President Theodore Roosevelt with 18 monuments.
On April 26, 2017, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13792 directing a review of the law and its uses.
Uses
The Act was intended to allow the President to set aside certain valuable public natural areas as park and conservation land. The 1906 act stated that it was intended for: "... the protection of obj
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Question - wanted to see if there were any Dungeon Synth projects that dealt with antiquity - specifically Grecian/Roman times. Thanks in advance!
Just wondering if Constantine's order of 333 that all Arius's books be burnt, Honorius' 409 order that all astrological writings be burnt, the book burning orders found in the Theodosian Code, as well as other imperial orders, were inspired by NT precedent. Was Acts 19:19 ever used to legitimize this early Christian practice or attitude towards magical and heretical works? If so, how?
First post here. Apologies for not citing the original question, but if the concept of the antiquities act is for the executive to declare certain spaces as national monuments for various reasons, then what are the legal and/or ethical arguments for a later executive to trim those lands back? Precedents? Was the Act meant to be a one way street to create federal land? Link for funsies: http://www.law.indiana.edu/publicland/files/national_monuments_modifications_CRS.pdf
