Museum of Inventions... and a sad picture of modern France

This museum (Musee des Arts et Metiers) was amazing - followed the progress of technology and invention over the last 2000 years with excellent exhibitions, models, artefacts, etc. But what interested me was an exhibition in what was once a church...the church was deconsecrated and filled with exhibitions of scientific progress, as well as a replica of the Statue of Liberty. This seems to be a picture of the path France has taken over the last 250 years... replacing faith in God with atheist/humanist notions of 'Liberty' and using 'Science' to bolster and justify these views... sad, but an interesting exhibition nonetheless. I wonder if the curators saw the symbolism?