I understand the nearest Metro stop will be Station of the Cross.
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There is SO much to do in DC I’d never find the time myself. But, OTOH this is a good idea. The private sector wants this and is paying for it. More power to them.
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Well, Floyd and me we talked this over, and are real excited to see it, even though we have to go to Sodom and Gamorrah to do so. Floyd read that Washington is the gayest city in America (it’s like one of every 10 people is of that persuasion), and a friend of mine said there’s a lot of “those people” there, too, if you know what I mean. She said you take your life into your own hands if you get on that socialist Metro system they have there, so we are planning just to go as part of a tour organized by our church, and we’ll take one of those big fancy tour buses directly right to the front door of the Museum.
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Agreed, TPM. These bait-and-switch headlines reduce your credibility.
You can, and should, be better than this.
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Bit of a hike but that could be a side trip where Jesus was said to feed the multitudes bushels of Old Bay-seasoned steamed blue crabs.
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Actually, its more than that if you read the article. Green’s intention may not be to find his way into every courthouse, as he’s already gotten the decision he wanted from the Hobby Lobby case by the hacks on the Supreme Court, but it is this as stated in the article:
Green has repeatedly stressed that his main mission is education, pressing for the inclusion of a museum-designed bible curriculum in public schools. It “only makes sense that we use this [museum] to educate,” he said at the recent donor event. “Our primary focus is to educate in the public schools in America.”
If anyone thought the idea of “The Family” and their inconspicuous house in DC to service the Dominionist ideology of the Christian Rightwing Uber-Conservatives and their authoritarian world view was a cause for concern…this should raise the hair on the back of your neck at least a tad. This “museum” will be a stone’s throw from the political offices of Congress. Its sort of reprehensible, when you think about the way its being set up as a form of influence peddling by religious-minded lobbyists already, according to the article…Its not the part where they will be highlighting bibles or discussing evangelical beliefs that bothers me, but that they are building a fact-free parallel universe, based on a fiction of ongoing persecution of Christian religious freedom in this country to be enshrined in a museum for public consumption in our nation’s capital. That’s a whole lot of hooey and poppycock.
…the 430,000-square-foot building will adjoin the world’s center of political power and influence. It will be within walking distance of Congress, whose members, the religious right hopes, will live out their conservative Christianity as legislators.
And their tax-exempt, non-profit status also makes me cringe.
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Yeah, it’s in a rundown area by a railroad track and in a building that was basically dormant for years (used to be some kind of mysterious “design center”). This will just join the roll call of pseudo-museums we’ve already got - Spy Museum, Museum of Crime and Punishment, Madame Tussauds, etc. Not a biggie
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Imagine how much nicer our world might be if people such as the Greens, the Kochs and the Waltons were motivated to use their fortunes to do good things.
In the case of the Greens, I can’t help but wonder why they’re not selling everything they own and giving the proceeds to the poor, as Jesus commanded his followers to do.
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Cringe-worthy tax exempt issue aside, we’ve survived other, more easily accessible, private museums, like the Spy Museum, the Museum of Crime and Punishment, Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum, and the Phillips Collection.
This building is way off the mall, in a part of town that would be for tourists unnervingly unpopulated on weekends except for scary local black people (if at all). It is not terribly close or convenient to the Hill or the Congressional offices.
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Reading the headline again makes me wonder if perhaps it’s the story itself that’s on the Mall…
I’m hoping there will be animatronic characters recreating the human sacrifices of the Bible (a la Disney’s “It’s a Small World”).
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I’ll go simply to participate in the interactive display of Sodom & Gommorah before the fall. Plus to see the various instances of incest to be shown in family genealogy charts. The Bronze Age is fun! Why did we ever choose to end it?
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According to his blog, Josh has it on the “edge” of the Mall. An improvement by a degree.
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This is Great News! The owner of Hobby Lobby is wasting his money on building museum infrastructure that will soon be vacant when attendance is abysmal … then we can use this building for something more productive.
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Adherents of Christian Dominionism like the Green family have only one goal in mind. To turn this country into a theocratic state governed by their strict biblical interpretation. This “museum” will be their first shrine as an in-your-face testimony smack dab in our nation’s capital.
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Hobby Lobby may be against contraception but they have an extensive coat hanger section.
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Good to know. I’ve never been to DC. Its still unchecked on my bucket list, but my son used to live and work there for a period of time and still goes to visit friends there.
Feh. Who gives a shit really. Bring on the dancing bears. I want a national museum that memorializes the circus in the US. Is that gonna happen? Fuck if I know, but I doubt it.
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This atrocity is two or three blocks from the National Mall grounds and not on them, but make no mistake about it: It is being established for political influence.
[The family members who own and operate Hobby Lobby are Christians who have long held a dream of constructing a Bible museum, The Times said. Part of the museum’s intent will be to
“reintroduce this book and its divine plans to this nation,” said Hobby Lobby President Steve
Green, The New York Times reported.]
America’s Future: Riven by religious violence and dominated by economic oligarchs. That’s the way many empires have ended, and that’s how America could well end, because we no longer have the sense or the restraint of the Enlightenment figures who put this democratic republic together. Many of the old oligarchs are making their last gasps and may destroy the entire republic before they let it out of their historical grasp. They have shown they have little regard for the Constitution, the government or any facet of governance if they don’t get their way…and their grip may be loosening but their desire to hold on and control by any means necessary is frightening.
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So, a big pile of “Oh we poor oppressed majority” then? SSDD.
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It would be an absolute disgrace if the Smithsonian was involved at any level, no matter how small, with this wretched place.
I would not be surprised, however, if bible humping Congressmen from the bible-belt areas aren’t in league with Green and his ilk to garner support and future development for this project.
Secular and religious interests should always be kept separate…if Green wants to waste his own private funds on a “museum” dedicated to a fictional fantasy and a Big Sky God…so be it.
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