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I hear ya....

Not just Steve Green, but all collectors of antiquities do the world a disfavor in my opinion.  These things belong to humanity and should be shared as collective treasures of history and memory markers of who we are and where we have come from.  Who knows how much and what sorts of things have been found and NEVER shown, rather they have been secreted away from the public eye by private collectors or organizations who chose to keep these discoveries to themselves.  Case in point- the Vatican collections.

Anyone with an agenda, can choose to hide discoveries for their own purposes just as they can filter and sort and decide what they share and what they do not. Certainly, this is the stuff of conspiracies, but it isn't hard to imagine a world where history-altering understanding has been purposefully kept from the public eye in favor of the status quo.  For example-- can you imagine the Catholic Church coming into possession of a dusty old scroll that describes the life of Mary and Joseph, that provides additional details that comprise a different narrative from what the gospel accounts contain?  It would be earth-shaking.  --And in all likelihood it would be hidden away.

Or- those keepers of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered?  Let's say they found another that relates the account of a young Jesus-- his missing years, where he was, what he was doing, --and how he came to arrive at the Jordan that day...?  Would not these Jewish scholars who had such information showing that he really lived, and studied somewhere and rose in popularity and was truly seen as a Jewish messiah only to be rejected by those same Jewish religious leaders... would such solid historical fact ever see the light of day?  I ponder such things, considering that those scrolls were kept hidden away for fifty years after their discovery, before anything was shown to the public.  They could simply have hidden away anything contrary to their beliefs, their traditions, their narratives, their purposes.

As for Hobby Lobby-- I don't think there was any such ill intent-- but who knows, right?  If they had come into possession of a Jesus boinking Mary Mags story-- would it have been shared with the world? --or simply tucked away?

Fun facts on Hobby Lobby-- Steve is the son and the collector and his pops is worth around $8 Billion.

A preacher's son from a poor background, Hobby Lobby founder David Green opened his first crafts shop in 1970 with a $600 loan.
His empire has grown from a single 300-square-foot store in Oklahoma City to 915 locations in 46 states, with $5.3 billion in sales.
A devout Christian, he still serves as Hobby Lobby's CEO and goes to work six days a week.
He won a 2014 Supreme Court case that exempted "closely held" companies with strong religious beliefs from providing employees the morning-after pill.
Green and his family spent $500 million on the Museum of the Bible, which opened in D.C. in 2017.
The Museum, chaired by Green's son Steve, has had to return thousands of smuggled artifacts to Egypt and Iraq.