“Crybaby alert?” Are you serious? As the Pope said (the last one) “Man is not made for work, work is made for man.” Humans are not just supposed to be slaves.
Already the “blue laws” were repealed allowing stores to remain open on Sunday and church attendance decreased. Now the stores (places for us to buy more garbage made in China that we don’t need) will be open 24-7 even on the most reered holidays. Each day endlessly like the last, nothing sacred because it is not cool to give thanks to God for your blessings or to celebrate a Christian holiday like Christmas. (If you are celebrating hip hop or sex with multiple partners or species, that is cool, however.)
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Romans 14: 5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord.
It is cultural destruction pure and simple. The corporatists want everyone to be consuming all the time, never stopping for family or spiritual reflection.
The paradox is that they make so much money off of Christmas,and Thanksgiving, yet they have effectively killed it off.
They think that adding the billions of other people from other cultures— who may be ‘offended’ by Thanksgiving and Christmas will improve the bottom line. But the last laugh will be on them. Their ‘free trade’ scheme creates societies in communist countries that produce goods but doesn’t pay enough wages for the workers to buy them. Not only have they destroyed our economy, they have made us ‘interdependent’ with the coming communist China economic implosion.
And since we have forgotten to give thanks and and preserve the Christian roots of our founding, as evidenced by many of the comments on this thread, we will have no platform to sustain us and rebuild our society.