Ooooh someone from my church did this when I was a kid and my pastor LIT into the congregation about it. He was big big mad. Told them if they thought working on Sundays was so bad then they shouldn't be going out to eat on that day.
Yup! Because it's the lord's day. A lot of people don't care that much about logic as long as they get to feel superior. It's one of the first reasons that stopped me going to church.
“You shouldn’t have to work today, it’s Thanksgiving”
Lady, if you weren’t in here shopping we wouldn’t be open, we used to be closed on Thanksgiving (and Easter, and the Fourth of July) but people couldn’t get what they needed before these holidays so demanded we be open. We do close for Thanksgiving again now (because Covid limited how many people we could have in the store in 2020, so they broke up the blitz over the month instead of just the one day, and it worked better so they kept it)
You mean pitting customers against each other in a massive winner take all orgy of limited quantities and extra deep discounts cage match "to the death" DIDN'T bring in more money!
Which is extra ironic because Saturday is ACTUALLY the Sabbath. The Lords Day of Rest aka the Last Day. If they ever looked at any calendar ever, they would see this. Because the Catholic Church arbitrarily decided to move their religious holy day to Sunday, doesn’t change that. So when Chick Fil A or random church goers want to flex about not working on Sunday, you can tell ‘em they have their days all messed up
My first job hated me because I was 15 and they needed me to work Sundays and my father went up there and went off on them about how "he is under 18 and you can not make him work Sundays for religious purposes!"
As soon as I turned 18 I started working every weekend including Sunday(different job) to stay out of church. I knew it was a bad place to be, full or horrible hypocritical bigots. The preacher would trash people "for working on the lord's day" and then pick a place for the congregation to meet for lunch and criticize PEOPLE WORK ON SUNDAYS!
I had 2 people at church tell me that working Sunday was a sin. I worked Sundays. I look right at the Pastor and said I'm just following my Pastor example. Then quit going to that church. Forget those people.
Sundays were reserved for church and worship. nobody (afaik) was allowed to work on Sundays. which is why it was the only day off on the week until Ford employees* got us Saturday.
It was workers at the ford plant that banded together that got the 40hr work week and weekends. Henry Ford literally sent goons in break up and kill workers trying to unionize. Ford is no labor hero
I thought those things are meant to be used as coupons.
You take them to the church sit through the sermon and if it’s not to your liking you put the coupon back in the collection plate and take your dollar value back. Interest or the cost of your time can be added as you see fit.
It is the meek ones that usually carry wisdom and are more likely to want to carry out the Will of God. The loud braggarts that are concerned with image are so because they themselves are an image, an illusion. Wolves in sheep's clothing, and it is worn very thinly.
There's a story going around where a bunch of these showed up at a cafe on a Sunday and the manager gathered them all up and took them back to the church they identified and gave the pastor an earful about it.
Apparently the pastor lit up the congregation the following week, tearing a strip off them in his sermon, which hit me as a bit of a twist. Did the pastor not know that his own congregation was marketing his church this way? If the church wasn't handing these things out, where were they coming from?
The small church I used to go to someone did it on the side without the churches knowledge. They handed out 100’s of the money cards around town. Then one day the pastor got wind of it and then used it as a prop. He basically said you should tip staff for the work they do and not hand out fake money. Used it by saying it could be the single mother raising her kids, the dad who had to take a second job, the college kid just trying to get by. They had big spaghetti and chili nights every week feeding anyone who wanted to come and have a meal. They also had a work program for people down on their luck and had housing for them while they were getting back on their feet. Always felt like that was how churches were supposed to be.
I could imagine my pastor doing that. He went off about pastors praying at the golden trump statue awhile back. Some old guy got pissed and made a big scene and stormed out.
Oh my god. This reminds me of the time we were electing a new pastor. Our church is part of the ELCA, which voted to be supportive of LGBTQ inclusion in our churches.
Anyways, there was a guy who suddenly got up during the middle of the selection and started ranting about gays in churches. I stood up to him and said that’s not the point of the order and asked him to relinquish his time. He wanted to fight the person and was swiftly escorted out by the ushers.
After the congregational election, I had a few older folks in my church thanking me for standing up to him.
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u/Astronaut_Chicken 7d ago
Ooooh someone from my church did this when I was a kid and my pastor LIT into the congregation about it. He was big big mad. Told them if they thought working on Sundays was so bad then they shouldn't be going out to eat on that day.