Posted on 12/23/2013 5:39:15 PM PST by Faith Presses On
As I recall, retail stores started being open on Thanksgiving about a decade ago. The first ones to my knowledge were stores like Dollar General and Family Dollar. That was later followed by KMart, etc., and now most stores are open. These stores are now open on Easter, too, for some years. And last year, for the first time that I've noticed it, Dollar General (and probably others) is open on Christmas. So what do Christians think of this? I myself think it's terrible, and is another sign of where our country is headed.
Christmas is a nice idea but it is a made up date. I’m sure God cares a whole lot about what we choose to do on December 25th as opposed to any day of the year.
Me too, on the Sunday thing. Good intentions, poor execution.
I grew when ‘blue laws’ were in effect. I don’t care if stores are open for business on any given day. I don’t have to shop on days that I don’t want to. I think this is a kerfluffle over nothing
Hospitals, fire departments, airplanes, police stations… all sorts of things are open on holidays. My folks worked every holiday to give others time off to be with their families. We always found a way to celebrate.
You’re right, of course. So let’s open ALL the stores, liquor marts, brothels, pot clubs, and opium dens 24 x 365.
A lot of towns in the South still have blue laws. Nothing open at all on Sundays, or very little open. A couple of year ago I was in my hometown in North Carolina when me and my brother went to the store to get some beer. It was 11 in the morning and he told me you couldn’t buy beer till 1 PM. I said why. He said stores can’t sell it till after church services. We stayed in the parking lot at Food Lion till 10 minutes to 1 and went in the store and got the beer. Got to cashier and had to stand there till it was exactly one o’clock. Cashier kept looking at her watch and finally sold it to us. She said she didn’t want to get arrested for selling it before 1. Now years absolutely nothing was open on Sunday and you were not buying any alcohol. My brother would always get me to go out to the Fort Bragg Class 6 to buy him a fifth of Seagrams 7.
As an employee, when I had a retail job I used to put in a request to work on Christmas Day. My family celebrates together on Christmas Eve, so Christmas Day I would be able to work a shift making time and a half on what would be an easy work day since business was light that day. Plus it allowed other employees who celebrated on Christmas Day to be with their families.
how about a hospital or a fire department or a police station???
Good point….the way our family celebrated, Christmas Eve thru late Christmas am was it….by noon, it was almost another day.
Let’s do that and let freedom reign.
When you start deciding for other people what is to their benefit, where do you stop and why would everybody necessarily agree with you as to why we stop there?
“how about a hospital or a fire department or a police station???”
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I wasn’t aware they were categorized as retail.
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Your response to Jonty was absurd….
…and yet, his screen name is “PROTECTOURFREEDOM” - ironic, ain’t it????
I don’t think the word Freedom means what he thinks it means. :)
Probably the best movie line ever.
If people want to work; let them.
Hardly. It’s a question of where do you set limits. Ask a liberal about how much tax they should take from you? Should it be 100%? How about the minimum wage? If $10/hour is good, then $20 is better. Why not make it $100/hour? When you explore the boundaries, it gives you a much better sense of proportion and more information upon which to make decisions.
I thought we were talking about the people who had to work on the holiday. Well ... if you weren’t I was, anyway.
AND ... that makes me wonder ... what about some automated website, where it’s all done electronically. I order something on the Apple website and the Chinese factory gets the order and gets ready to ship it. They’re PAGANS over in China anyway.
BUT, if you were in Israel, you would have to contend with the Haredim over there who get laws passed about this. And they even get hotels to run the elevators by NOT PUSHING THE BUTTONS, because it would be a violation of “no work on the Sabbath” if they had to push a button on the elevator ... :-) ...
You are conflating laws that we all must live with (taxes, min wage) with free enterprise decisions….so sorry….NO DEAL. Bad analogy, 100% flawed.
I imagine those who are working major holidays make 1.5 pay or double pay, and I hope they are volunteers. Still, I will not shop on Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter no matter what. I have mixed feelings on stores opening those days, but I won’t permanently boycott a store over that mistake.
I kinda like your attitude....I have a problem with all the secular emphasis on “Christmas” which does not include the REASON for he SEASON!
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