Are you a bad Christian if you work on Sunday?

[Mary2e]

Seriously. I'm going to NC on a business trip and wanted to extend it by 1 day to visit the furniture outlets in the area.

I contacted the largest/most famous one and asked if they would be open on the Sunday of a 3 day holiday weekend.

Much to my shock.. this is the response I received:

No, we are closed on Sunday. We are only closed on Sundays and Christmas and Thanksgiving. Our owner is a good Christian.

Whether or not they close for that reason really doesn't matter. It was a salesperson responding to me, but I was more than taken aback.

FWIW - the majority of the showrooms are closed on Sundays and some don't open on Saturdays either.

So, I guess that makes me a bad christian as well for wanting to shop on Sunday.

I wonder what would happen if everyone took off Sunday. Perhaps no electricity, heat, hospital services, etc?

 

[ckay87]

Seriously. I'm going to NC on a business trip and wanted to extend it by 1 day to visit the furniture outlets in the area.

I contacted the largest/most famous one and asked if they would be open on the Sunday of a 3 day holiday weekend.

Much to my shock.. this is the response I received:



Whether or not they close for that reason really doesn't matter. It was a salesperson responding to me, but I was more than taken aback.

FWIW - the majority of the showrooms are closed on Sundays and some don't open on Saturdays either.

So, I guess that makes me a bad christian as well for wanting to shop on Sunday.

I wonder what would happen if everyone took off Sunday. Perhaps no electricity, heat, hospital services, etc?

You got that right. Thank God for bad Christians

 

[joyjoy]

Thanksgiving is only for Christians now? Who knew?

 

[freckles and boo]

He might still be a jerk who takes Sundays off. Following the rules doesn't necessarily make you "good".

 

[java]

When I was a child everything was closed on Sunday. (and I'm not THAT old)
It's the Shopping/spending money thing that makes it an issue- so hospitals, electricity ect wouldn't apply.

But that was also when people worked from 9-5 and ate breakfast at home and diner was at 6.

Chick Fil A is closed every Sunday too. (same theory for them)

 

[Stacerita]

He might still be a jerk who takes Sundays off. Following the rules doesn't necessarily make you "good".

You got that right.

 

[onelilspark]

I work Sundays when I have to. I'm sure God will forgive me when it comes between doing my job and putting food on my table or getting fired because I refuse to show up to work.

 

[Erin1700]

Besides ChikFilA, I can't think of any other places around here that are closed on sunday. I must live in the land of Bad Christians!!

 

[Uncle Remus]

Blue Law

in U.S. history, a law forbidding certain secular activities on Sunday. The name may derive from Samuel A. Peters’s General History of Connecticut (1781), which purported to list the stiff Sabbath regulations at New Haven, Connecticut; the work was printed on blue paper. A more probable derivation is based on an 18th-century usage of the word blue meaning “rigidly moral” in a disparaging sense. Strictest in Puritan, Bible-oriented communities, blue laws usually forbade regular work on Sunday, plus any buying, selling, traveling, public entertainment, or sports. Peters’s account of the New Haven Puritan government’s codes has been proved unreliable. Among the 45 blue laws he listed in his History (1781) that were wholly or substantially true, however, are the following: “The judges shall determine controversies without a jury”; “married persons must live together or be imprisoned”; “a wife shall be good evidence against her husband”; and “the selectmen, on finding children ignorant, may take them away from their parents and put them into better hands, at the expense of their parents.” To some degree, similar laws existed in all the American colonies. In general, they lapsed after the American Revolution. As late as the 1990s, however, blue laws remained on the statutes in some states, and their influence has persisted wherever public activity on Sunday is regulated.

Encyclopedia Britannica

 

[missypie]

Hobby Lobby is closed on Sundays. I think the idea is that these businesses don't want to require their employees to be required to work on Sunday.

 

[mjkacmom]

We have some counties around us that have blue laws - my favorite mall is in one of them - very inconvinient! I'm Catholic, and we have Saturday night Mass, in case you have to work on Sundays.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

My take on it is that the sabbath is a gift from God for our benefit. We just were not designed to be 24/7 creatures. Like all good gifts from God it is within our free will to turn it down.

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Well, that must make me the worst Christian ever. I work 24 hour shifts every Sunday. i suppose a better Christian would let the fires burn, and the sick people walk to the hospital.

I don't think God thinks less of me for working on a Sunday. I think he'd be happy that I'm out helping people.

 

[mkingdomlvr]

I think it's nice for the employees to have Sunday off to be with their families-whether they are Christian or not. Lord knows retail is tough work.

I grew up with Blue Laws too and we still managed to get all our shopping done with the stores closed on Sunday. Both my parents worked too.

 

[Loverly]

None of the Furniture stores, or free standing Boutique type stores (furniture, clothes, jewelry) are open here on Sundays.
Just mall stores and "Big Box"stores, and groceries are open.


I find nothing weird about that store being closed on a Sunday.


I think this post is just a way to 'pick" on Christians.

 

[Galahad]

Short answer, for me. No. (Jesus worked on the Sabbath - one of the things the Pharasies took issue with if you recall) But taking this in the direction of theology. Being Christian is a binary - yes or no. There aren't degrees. All Christians are "bad" - otherwise we wouldn't be Christians.

 

[luvsJack]

Actually what the Bible says is that one should rest and worship on the Sabbath or 7th day(which would be Sunday for Christian) "unless your ox is in a ditch" or something like that--or at least thats what has always been quoted to me. Meaning unless absolutely necessary. Hospitals and the like would be absolutely necessary.

Actually, my thought on it would be that if you are required by your employer to work on Sunday then that makes it necessary and in turn this would be why some companies choose to close on Sunday.

 

[mrsdon]

I worked for CFA and loved being off on Sundays
I wish more businesses would close on Sundays to give their employees Sundays off.
They might find they are just as blessed by being closed on Sundays as open.

 

[Mary2e]

None of the Furniture stores, or free standing Boutique type stores (furniture, clothes, jewelry) are open here on Sundays.
Just mall stores and "Big Box"stores, and groceries are open.

I find nothing weird about that store being closed on a Sunday.

I think this post is just a way to 'pick" on Christians.

What? Pick on Christians?

The huge outlet centers in the Hickory/High Point region of North Carolina are just a bit bigger than your local stores. They're even bigger than the big box stores.

My point was that the salesperson could have simply said, no, we won't be open on Sunday that weekend.

Instead, she inserted that fact about being a good christian. I took it to mean that I was a bad christian for wanting to shop on Sunday. Not exactly a good way to earn a commission

Oh, and I found another huge outlet center in the area that will be opening for the holiday weekend on a Sunday and with any luck, will get my business.

 

[Dizzy4Disney90210]

Well, that must make me the worst Christian ever. I work 24 hour shifts every Sunday.

You work 24 hours straight without sleep?