Posted on 10/29/2015 1:57:33 PM PDT by sparklite2
As the world’s foremost collector of rare biblical artifacts, Steven Green may have made a deal with the devil - helping to preserve Iraq’s disappearing Christian heritage by allegedly buying black market items plundered by the Islamic State.
Green, whose family-owned Hobby Lobby company clashed bitterly with the Obama administration over federal health care laws that required it to cover reproductive services, is being investigated by Customs & Border Protection reportedly for attempting to smuggle as many as 300 age-old cuneiform tablets from Iraq into the U.S. via Israel, labeling them "tiles." It was not clear if the probe centers on Green, the company, or both, but the shipment was reportedly addressed to Hobby Lobby headquarters in Oklahoma City.
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LORD deal with that man, and please LORD, the sooner the better.
Nothing I’ve seen yet suggests that the items were stolen from any rightful owner. Only that they were “mislabeled” on a customs form. It doesn’t strike me as mislabeling if they were described as “tiles”. They’re clay. They’re fired and hardened. Would “tablets” be better? But they’re not whole tablets. They’re fragments. They’re... Tiles.
There’s a lot of explanatory stuff at the article link.
Sounds like they are broken tiles.
Exactly. 0bama hates Christians with the passion of the devil himself. Most leftists do, but he is a communist AND a Muslim. That is a deadly combination.
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