Discussion: The Inside Story of Hobby Lobby's New Bible Museum on the National Mall

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I happen to work one block away and this is not a rundown area at all. Its just full of office buildings for federal workers and government (defense) contractors. There are lots of new office buildings going up all over. A few tourist-focused hotels are nearby.

This “museum” is being built in what was the old Washington Design Center, which was basically a wholesale showroom (covering 6 floors) for interior design professionals. The ghosts in that building are likely to be more flamboyant than your average hobby lobby customer.

The one redeeming thing about the location is that it is right next to a train track. And the view sucks.

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One more time:

IT’S NOT ON THE MALL. IT IS TWO BLOCKS SOUTH OF THE MALL WHERE NOTHING ELSE IS.

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IT is ON the VERge OF beING on THE EdGE of TwO BLocKs frOM MUSEUMs ThaT are ON thE MALL!!!11one!!!

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Yes Potbelly’s is around the corner! And right next door is Gold’s Gym and a Quiznos. The upper floors are The Small Business Administration.

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YAY Potbelly’s! Have you had the pulled pork? It looks good but I’m afraid it will suck (I realize it isn’t going to be Fat Pete’s good but not totally suck).

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Yep you just know some asshole Congressman from Bumfuckistan is gonna make appropriation for the Smithsonian contigent on Federal $$$ for the Bible Museum. Or at least try . . .

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Potbellies will BE the ones attending the museum.

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That’s one way to spread the wealth around, at least.

This project is one more reason for me to continue to boycott Hobby Lobby.

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Mostly soup for me. Pulled pork should not be trifled with. There is decent barbecue across the mall (where the real museums are).

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Reminds me again why in high school we started dubbing evangelicals Nazis for Christ, and that was 1970, they only get worse and worse.

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The author is a bit over the top.

the workplace has become a place where an owner or a employee must, by religious mandate, “live out” his or her faith, regardless of its impact on people of other faiths,

Must? Really? No. While I am no fan of the Hobby Lobby ruling, it doesn’t do this. The author should at least be honest in describing what she’s talking about. Same goes for the title.

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I hope they go broke. The Greens have done enough damage to this country.

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Right. But what happens when public schools take kids to this “museum” on field trips?

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Well – I’ve never been there, but there is the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota, FL. My impression is that it’s pretty extensive.

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Now that’s what I’m talking about…I’d go there if I ever found myself in Sarasota…which isn’t very likely…but, that looks cool…thanks.

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Don’t forget the Natty Boh!

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My recollection is, though, that blocks in DC can be v-e-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-y long.

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One wonders: on the scale of difficulty, how does building a Bible museum in D.C. compare to getting a camel through the eye of a needle.

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That’s the preview space, so that you can see how your post will be formatted after youy click “Reply”. I find it helpful, but if you don’t want it, just click the “hide preview” link at the bottom right corner of the screen. (Just now, for example, the preview let me know that the two angle brackets I had included in describing the link, because that’s actually what shows there, were going to make everything behind them disappear, and that I needed to take them out.)

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I don’t think many schools do long-distance field trips any longer. When I was in elementary school, it was Jamestown in the 4th grade, Monticello in the 5th grade and Washington, DC in the 6th grade. My sister tells me the only place they take the kids now is the Richmond Zoo, which is actually in Chesterfield County. A private, for-profit zoo, of course. I know there are some 4th grades that make field trips to the Virginia Historical Society (4th grade is the year they study Virginia history), but I don’t know if that’s largely Richmond-area classes, or if they come from other parts of the state as well. I suspect the former.