When I was a kid, we were forced to play with each other ... actually ... there was no force required ... we had been reared in a social structure that didn't HAVE Sunday entertainment ...
It was a time when we divided candy bars among four friends, shared one bottle of tonic (I'm from Boston), rode our bikes from morning 'til suppah time, never wore helmets or kneepads, didn't know what tofu was nor bean sprouts, in fact ... by today's standards ... I committed suicide by the age of ten.
Sunday was an afternoon at the family table after church .. maybe some play, but not much, 'cause the Wonderful World of Disney came on sometime in the evening and we didn't want to miss that.
Later on in life it was Ed Sullivan
SO disappointed as we aged when we outlived TV ...
I mean the test pattern came on after midnight's prayer and National Anthem.
Remember ... the family that prays together, stays together.
(Which I think was a national anthem in and of itself in those days)
The problem with Blue Laws is that common sense gets trumped by bureaucracy. We had them in Ontario until the early 1990s and the rules were bizarre; an exemption based on square footage & employee counts resulted in stores cordoning off sections and dealing with long lineups. I think the hours of operation should be worked out between the shopkeeper and his customers.
If our Heavenly Father’s calendar gets revealed to you, and you can then recognize how the entire world is deceived into a false premise as ‘innocent’ as ‘time’, then maybe more will reject the world for His Word..
Sun’s day hasn’t been a sabbath since gregorian february on His calendar..
jews, muslims and christians of all stripes can stumble into His Sabbath a few times in their year..
But that happens when a system uses one piece of His clock to determine time and date instead of everything He gives us.