Thou Shalt Rest

[trickykitty]

I am always surprised by the number of Christians that work on Sunday, or at least eat breakfast/lunch/dinner at a food establishment, thereby encouraging someone else to work on the Sabbath.

I received a call from my boss's boss, which at first I wasn't going to answer, but he doesn't usually call otherwise. He knows someone who lost his secretary this past Monday and is desperate to get some work done today. So I shall be going to work for that guy putting together what amounts to board packets for a few hours this afternoon. I should stop by my own office and get a little work done there as well. Actually, I have to go in, come to think of it, because I realize that I forgot to print attendance sheets for next week which has to be done regardless.

Hm - speaking of work and Sabbath and all: to Church or not to Church? That is the question.

Comments

Sabbath

[fleurrette.livejournal.com]

Oh but the ones they make work on Sunday are not really people after all right? So they don't count.

I'll have the CD for you at the Church tonight in case you do show up

[mr-rubix.livejournal.com]

I was verra verra sleepy and forgot to send it with Kevin when I dropped him off. It has the GURPS books in PDF and the character generator program I used to create my character for the game.

Re: I'll have the CD for you at the Church tonight in case you do show up

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. BTW, you were welcome to stay last night after dropping him off. I hope you got my text message.

[seci.livejournal.com]

In their defense, not always, but very often, they have a choice of working on Sunday or losing their job. And then there is always the point that people, regardless of religious beliefs, are fundamentally flawed...

[anonymosaurus.livejournal.com]

Speaking from a purely historical context, the argument against Christians working on Sunday implies that Xtians follow Jewish law and not the example of Christ as set forth in the New Testament. Christ got in trouble with the Pharisees for healing a blind man on the Sabbath, which in those days was on Saturday. COnstantine changed the Sabbath to Sunday, can't remember why.
If you want to be baffled, look at all the Jews who work on Saturday.
New World Christian doctrine and dogma is a mish-mash of whatever sounded good at the time to individual church deacons and other church leaders. Very very very few (if any) New World Christian theology has anything to do with the example of Christ's life or teachings.
For example...the Ten Commandments, and the other few hundred commandments in Leviticus and Deutoronomy. THose were all lists of rules the Hebrews had to follow in order to be accepted by Hebrew "socitey" (which was a conglomoration of races linked by the Jewish tradition, not one nation of one race as most seem to think), and to gain entry into the land of Caanan. Yet New World Xtian doctrine canonises the X Commandments as law. Why? None of them are BC-era Hebrews, and the Land of Caanan is somewhere around modern-day Iraq. I sure don't want to go live there.
CHrist only gave two commandments...two. "Deny yourself" and "follow me". That's it. All the other shit was tacked on by early church leaders who were frankly a little wacky. Like Peter and Paul. Read some of Paul's letters to the Galatians...and read them in context, all the way thru. Some serious issues, this cat had. Christ said Peter was the "Rock on which I will build my church", but Peter ended up creating Peter's church, which had very little to do with the actual techings of the man the church is named after.

Wow...that was long. But I love talking about this stuff.

[crista.livejournal.com]

Teh Rubix is going to allow me to company him to the church tonight.

AND I'm gonna wear a dress.

and heels

and I have pink hair.

Come make out with me. =)