Bible Museum to Be Built Just 2 Blocks Away From the National Mall in D.C.
- Posted on July 30, 2012 at 8:36am by
Billy Hallowell
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Earlier this month, TheBlaze told you about a Bible museum that will be built in Washington, D.C. While details were initially sparse, on Thursday, the location of the new initiative was announced; it will be just two blocks away from the National Mall.
The currently-unnamed museum will be located at 300 D Street SW, according to Religion News Service (RNS). The building currently houses the Washington Design Center, a series of home furnishings showrooms and it was purchased for $50 million by the non-profit group behind the Bible initiative.
(Related: Are You Ready for This Massive Bible Museum Being Planned for Washington, D.C.?)
The group behind the project, The Museum of the Bible, is a non-profit that represents the collection owned by the billionaire Green family. The Greens, as we’ve previously reported, are well-known Christians who own a craft store chain called Hobby Lobby.
The Bible museum will provide fascinating relics, while attempting to educate visitors about the holy book’s origins and contents.
“Our intent is for this museum to showcase both the Old and New Testaments, arguably the world’s most significant pieces of literature, through a non-sectarian, scholarly approach that makes the history, scholarship and impact of the Bible on virtually every facet of society accessible to everyone,” explains Mark DeMoss, a member of the museum’s board.
The museum’s planners initially sought out other cities for its location as well, including Dallas and New York, but Washington was inevitably strategically chosen. Organizers conducted research and found that people with interest in the museum were more likely to travel to D.C. than to other cities.
“In reality, the population base within that eight-to-10 hour drive of D.C. represents half of the U.S. or two-thirds and there’s a lot of Christians in that group,” explained Cary Summers, chief operating officer of The Museum of the Bible.
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blair152
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:45pmEspecially the American Atheists, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the Festivus crowd. Did I
Report Post »mention CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood? I didn’t? I did now.
Twit123
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:53pmI think there will be protests, demonstrations of Moslems and Atheists who are against the Christian Holy Bible. Perhaps Obama would not allow or would not like this museum for it will offend his Moslem friends.
But it is the perfect location because it will enlighten and educate those blind followers of the Christian faith. Many of them are in DC. Hopefully, Pelosi and Biden get to educate themselves about how to be a true Christian. Biden and Pelosi are hypocrites, claiming that they are Catholic Christians, but violates every teaching of it.
Report Post »joe.finney
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:50pmA Bible will actually be in Washington D.C. Shock! Shock! That is what the leftys’ want,for the Bible to be relegated to a museum. I am all for this but out Nation should be using the Bible as a guide for our morals and values.
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:23pm:-) Me smells a 9/12 ‘launch’ in Ohio similar to the MLK ‘movement,‘ in attempt to ’restore‘ what is actually the ’silent majority’. I’d have chosen Colorado – since that is the ‘center’ of the lower 48 — and let it ‘radiate’ outward – just like the ‘sun’ — Created by God, as the SOURCE of life on Earth.
Report Post »AndYetItMoves
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:43pmWithin the next 5 billion years the sun is going to implode and destroy every organism that god ever ‘created’ on this continent. But god is mysterious…
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:21pmBy then I’m sure we will have found another star to orbit our home around. Preferably another red giant, the blue ones tend to cause too much sunburn.
Report Post »RDawkins
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:15pmExperience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation.
During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits?
More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
[James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1785]
Report Post »Halo9x
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:40pmSorry that you have had such a negative experience with Christianity. Too bad you haven’t seen the good that has been done. If you want to see some good come to Portales, NM to visit the New Mexico Christian Children’s Home. I grew up there and serve on the Board of Directors. It’s just one of many Homes who serve the needs of homeless children.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:23pmOr you can come to Restoring Lov- oh wait…
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:12pmI hope they have a display of some sort that indicates the impact the Bible had on the founding of this country. I think that is the perfect place for it to be located. Maybe this will counter the secular crap we’re being dealt these days.
Report Post »RDawkins
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:07pmHave you ever thought about how bizarre the Bible stories are?
Imagine the all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the universe sitting on his magnificent throne in heaven. He looks down onto earth and says to himself:
Those evil humans down on earth. I hate what they are doing. All this sin…
Since I am all-knowing I know exactly what the humans are doing and I understand exactly why they commit each sin. Since I created the humans in my own image and personally programmed human nature into their brains, I am the direct author of all of this sin. The instant I created them I knew exactly what would happen with every single human being right down to the nanosecond level for all eternity. If I didn’t like how it was going to turn out, I could have simply changed them when I created them. And since I am perfect, I know exactly what I am doing. But ignore all that. I hate all these people doing exactly what I perfectly designed them to do and knew they would do from the moment I created them…
So here’s what I am going to do. I will artificially inseminate a virgin. She will give birth to an incarnated version of me. The humans will eventually crucify and kill the incarnated me. That will, finally, make me happy. Yes, sending myself down and having the humans crucify me — that will satisfy me. I feel much better now.
It makes no sense, does it? Why would an all-knowing being need to have humans kill himself (Jesus is God, after all) to make himself happ
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:43pmYou can just come out and say it.
God raped Mary.
Report Post »ecso828
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:05pmGood thoughts, but not what is going on.
God created man with free will. He did this so you have the right to choose if you want to love Him and follow Him or not. If He created you with an automatic, internal command to love and follow Him, then your love would mean nothing. Just like if you were to build a robot and have it follow you around all day telling you how it loves you and thinks you’re great, compared to meeting someone and having them fall in love with you on their own.
The reason Christ came to Earth and was killed wasn’t to make God happy. It was because the laws of Moses, given to him by God, were not being followed. They were to show that people cannot be sinless on their own. The laws are impossible for people to follow completely because people are influenced by two forces. Good and evil. So, Christ was sent as a way for people who follow God, or love God, to repent their sins, which is all God is asking. It was God’s way of saying, “You can’t follow the rules I made for you, so I’ll make it much easier for you.”
Also, God didn’t “program” people with sin. He made the angels to love Him first. Then he gave the angels free will and some rebelled against him. He then made people. People became the fallen angels battleground. If the fallen angels can corrupt the people, and destroy His chosen, then the fallen can make God a liar and “prove” God isn’t holy and just. This is why things are the way they are. Free will.
The battle c
Report Post »RDawkins
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:02pmThe Bible is the WORST Book of HATE ever written!
The Bible states that it is not the word of men but the word of God, and that the Bible is perfect.
I do not accept the Bible as Gods’ word because it contains thousand of errancies and contradictions that can not be solved, only rationalized. I refuse to accept Jesus as my personal savior, for his behavior and teachings are not worthy of worship!
Christians should be “open to reason” (James 3:17 RSV), that we should “reason together” (Isaiah 1:18) and “he who hates correction will die” (Proverbs 15:10) to understand my perspective that the bible has MANY shortcomings.
1. According to your Bible I am to believe that human kind is sinful for Adam and Eve ate the fruit of knowledge. Why are we being punished for the original sin? After all, they ate the forbidden fruit, we didn’t. Reason would lead one to say it’s their problem, not ours. Even the bible contradicts itself by claiming in Deuteronomy 24:16, “children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers.”
2. We are told that the Bible has no scientific errors and is utterly perfect/protected, yet it says the bat is a bird (Leviticus 11:13 & 19), hares chew the cud (Leviticus 11:5-6), and some fowl (Leviticus 11:20-21) and insects (Leviticus 11:22-23) have four legs.
3, If the Bible is our moral guide, then how can it make pornographic statements such as: “…they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with yo
Report Post »Bubba
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 11:19amPlease make sure your board and governance is very, very tight so that the intent of the donors is honored, especially after their death. The last thing that the world needs is yet another group of sharp-elbowed left-leaners getting hold of something like this. The bad guys would love to co-opt a Bible museum, one turn-of-a-phrase at a time. No shortage of these types within the Beltway. Life is different there.
This has happened to virtually every big name foundation, even the VFW suffered a coup of sorts during the ‘08 election cycle. Glenn Beck has mentioned the fact that these take-overs happen in foundations, universities, even religious denominations. Witness the slow motion suicide of the Episcopalian church due to their leadership. But what we need to understand is how the bad guys gain power, how they isolate the good guys and get them thrown out (tenure as a means of ensuring a diversity of viewpoints has proven to be a farce), and why they want it more than we seem to. I suggest we start by considering this well intentioned, privately funded museum at its onset.
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:15pmWonderful idea! Makes me want to shop at Hobby Lobby. God Bless this Museum and these people who are demonstrating their faith,
Report Post »nonofmybiznez
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:56amI think we should ban together as Christians and put a “Freedom Park” in the center of every city. This would be a place that was private property and would allow religious symbols and freedom of speech. Perhaps a place where we could read the Bible or any book aloud. Where we could express ourselves without government intervention.
Report Post »AndYetItMoves
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 11:50amWould this be open to all denominations? If so, ‘freedom park’ sounds like an absolute bloodbath. The only thing religious types hate more than atheists is each other.
Report Post »HowTruthHurts
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:12pmAndYetItMoves Translation:
I hate God so I’m going to bash his followers. I’m going to make broad-brush statements about any of His followers. I‘m going to rebuke hatred while constantly proclaiming my hatred for God’s followers.
Report Post »The_Knower
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:28pmI don‘t think I want our LORD’S WORD to intermingle with all the VACUOUS GARBAGE of any nonchristians that also plan to shove their free-speech in my face. If it’s not from the mouth of the LORD, then I don’t want to hear it.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:45pmUh, apparently you don’t see all the crazy preachers in parks, etc.
Report Post »AndYetItMoves
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:41pmI‘m afraid that ’hating god,’ from my perspective, would be abjectly absurd. What you mean to say is that I hate your doctrine, which would be accurate. I hate the idea that credulity is better than independence, that atonement is better than moral responsibility, that one book is better than all books, and so should you.
Report Post »HowTruthHurts
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:05pmAndYetItMoves Translation:
You are right I do hate God. However I’m going to cloak my hatred for God and His followers with a babbling paragraph. I’m going to attempt to present my simple hatred as a sophisticated, intellectual argument. In reality I know that I am no more sophisticated that all the sinful rebels before me.
Report Post »AndYetItMoves
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:51pmI suppose anyone that has passed the second grade should be familiar with this style of debate. If you’ll indulge me, I’ll translate as well:
I, like most of my fellow American christians, am an entitled yokel who has been taught my entire life that my inadequacy (intellectual or otherwise) is easily ignored as long as I appeal to the baby jesus and the talking points of our 80% christian majority. Anyone who criticizes my dogma is over-educated, or a communist, or an agent of the devil. I will be safe in any debate as long as I defend the ethos of American trash-culture, which is the simple idea that an unwavering, undiscerning belief in the modern incarnation of Christianity redeems all that I lack in education.
Report Post »HowTruthHurts
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:12pmAndYetItMoves Translation:
I’m so frustrated that I cannot sway him from his faith!! If there is anything I hate as much as God it’s His faithful believers!! All I want is for this dude and all others like him to deny Christ and indulge themselves in sin!!
Report Post »refounder1961
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:23amThere’s a wonderful museum, The Creation Museum, near Cincinnati, Ohio. If you’re travelling from the west toward D.C. by car, this is a great detour! Or somewhere in the interim to visit until the Bible Museum is completed.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:46pmI want to make a movie that adds on to the “Wrong Turn” movie franchise.
Instead, in this one the person takes a “wrong turn” and ends up at the Creation Museum.
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:15amThey will be constantly challenged over the “politically correctness” of their speech. Spies will be planted.
Report Post »They will lose their not for profit status….
If this arouses attention, they surely will dictate strictly what can and cannot be said.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:11amExcellent, I hope and pray that Obama will not interfere with it and turn it into a shrine promoting and demanding social justice.
Report Post »AndYetItMoves
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:11amThankfully we’re starting to realize that a museum is precisely where this scrapbook of bronze-age tribalism belongs.
Report Post »HowTruthHurts
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:26amThankfully we’re starting to realize that a museum is precisely where this eternal knowledge and wisdom belongs.
Report Post »kpeters59
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:11pm#Yeti
We’re one election from being returned to “Bronze-Age Tribalism”. Just witness how fasts things devolve with one shooting. Or OWS. Couldn’t be a better example of humans at their most basic behavior. Will your iPad sustain you after the crash?
You seem as uninformed and clueless about how things really work on this planet as anybody else I could point to. Read a Good Book.
Peace be with you.
-KP
Report Post »kpeters59
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:19pm#Yeti
We’re one election away from returning to the “bronze-age tribalism” you mentioned. Your head will spin with how fast things will devolve to their basic elements. Just look at Anaheim. Or OWS. There‘s not a better example of human behavior at it’s most basic.
Do you think your precious iPad will sustain you after the crash?
Get a grip. Read a Good Book.
Peace be with you.
-KP
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:03amSurely Mayor Vincent Gray will do what he can to put a stop to this. That Bible much like the Chick-Fil-A’s Cathy family speaks out against homosexuality. That museum just cannot happen with this idiot in office.
Report Post »I’m still bumfuzzeled that these same gay marriage promoters did not hate 0bama during his first three and a half years in office. Their feelings were exactly the same as the president expressed from the time he started running for office. Simply baffling, isn’t it?
abwehragent
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:03amNow, if our leaders will just pick up a Bible and read it through with an open heart…
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:56amYou want people leading the world in 2012 to get their information from a book written 2000 years ago by cavemen?
And you want them to lead you?
Please go home.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:05amVoteBush – Better that book than a book written by your socialists comrades like Marx, Mao, Margaret Sanger, & Hitler. Those books resulted in the massacre of millions of innocents.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:13amVB12
I’ll take a Man that leads a moral life and
draws inspiration from the Good Book…
Than one that lives his life…
According to the pages of the Communist Manifesto..
Any day of the week …Dipstick..!
Report Post »kpeters59
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:33am#VB
What’s the big difference between now and then, anyway? iPod’s? We‘re so advanced now that we don’t still need the same basic elements that we needed when The Truth was revealed?
Get a grip.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:17pm@SREGN
Actually I am pretty sure religious books have also lead in the massacre of millions of innocents. Crusades? Hitler? 9/11? Exodus (from the book itself)? Need I go on?
@SAWBUCK
Dipstick?
That’s called your opinion, same as mine. So stop the name calling, dipstick.
@KPETERS59
“What’s the big difference between now and then, anyway?”
Wow, really? Now we know the earth is round, not the center of the universe, is not 6,000 years old, we evolved from Apes, we can communicate with people around the world in a matter of seconds, satellites, space travel, etc. But, and this is MOST important, nuclear weapons which allow crazy fundamentalists (and I’m not referring to just Muslims here) the control to bring about the Armageddon discussed in the Bible. No long must we WAIT for Messiah and the end of days, we can bring it here on our own.
I find that literally terrifying. That people with such primitive perspectives of the world hold the seat of power.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:01amIt’s good that obama, Holder and their entire anti-Christian cabal will be out of power by the time this is built.
Report Post »kpeters59
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:00amThere’s a Hobby Lobby on the corner opposite the Chik-Fil-A about 1 mile from my house. I think my daughter needs some new art supplies after we have lunch today.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:05amGood idea. I shop at Hobby Lobby very often.
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:00amSo what is the big deal,where is this story going.2 blocks,2 miles or 2 thousand miles big deal.
Report Post »ferggie
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 8:54amPrivate money, I guess the non-believers will just have to suck it up and accept it. If they don’t like it well that is just too bad. I love the idea that it will be a Christen based museum focused on the Bible.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 8:50amTHAT should put the leftys’ panties in a wad!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 8:45amI’m sure they will be protested and threatened and audited. The museum is a beautiful idea. I hope they are immensely successful.
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