Should Cultural Artifacts Be Returned To Their Religion Of Origin

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Yes cultural artifacts should be returned to their religion of origin. The artifacts should be returned to their religion of origin because that is where the artifact came from. So it is like we are stealing the artifacts from that religion. If we keep taking all the artifacts from a religion and putting them in a museum people could almost completely forget about that culture.
Most of the artifacts that we take and put in museums have special value to the cultures. In the passage it says “ many artifacts and works of art have special cultural value for a particular community or nation.” when the people who take the artifacts from the culture take things it takes away part of their culture. In the passage it states “it was exported illegally

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