Family Behind Hobby Lobby Has New Project: Bible Museum

[Little Star]

The family that owns the Hobby Lobby chain is planning to build a Bible museum on the site of the Washington Design Center, shown here, near the National Mall.

WASHINGTON — The evangelical Christian family that owns Hobby Lobby, the chain of craft stores, made history two weeks ago when the Supreme Court overturned the Obama administration’s mandate that family-owned companies must provide contraceptive coverage to their employees.

Now, the family is looking to build a permanent presence on the Washington landscape, by establishing a sprawling museum dedicated to the Bible — just two blocks south of the National Mall.

The development of a Bible museum has long been a dream of the Oklahoma-based Green family, which has built Hobby Lobby into a $3 billion company in which its religious beliefs infuse every aspect of the business, from the music played in its stores to being closed on Sundays.

The proposed museum, shown in this rendering, is scheduled to open in 2017.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/us/politics/family-that-owns-hobby-lobby-plans-bible-museum-in-washington.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1

Ugh!

[CBGLuthier]

1. They put his bible exhibit in our local museum. I did not got that year in protest.

The greedy assholes even charged an EXTRA fee to see their precious collection of ancient bibles. Their only real god is money.

[hlthe2b]

2. I think they need a new hobby

All that bible talk, and yet they've clearly never read the New Testament, like most RW fundies.

[packman]

3. Reminds me of the Middle Ages

When the rich thought they could buy their way into heaven by building churches and giving to the church. What fools. Perhaps they should have thought how much good all that money could have done by following the teachings of Christ concerning the hungry, the naked, the poor instead of building stone momuments to their ego.

[dawg]

4. A Bible museum could be a really cool thing if done right.

Why is it then, that I'm expecting Jesus riding a Brontosaurus?

[Little Star]

8. Someone forgot to tell them...

that the bible is mostly made up of fables, parables, and allegories. Dumb-asses almost always take it completely literal.

[Laffy Kat]

5. If it's on the National Mall, will it be paid for by tax monies?

I assume the other museums there are supported by tax-payers, as there are no admission fees.

[snooper2]

6. Can we petition them to have a small section for Puff the Magic Dragon as well!

PLEASE!

[hatrack]

7. I drive by six or eight Bible Museums every day on the way to work

I'm really hard-pressed to think of a "need" for yet another.