With its extensive radio, television, websites, and print periodicals, Bloomberg is one of the most powerful media firms, particularly in the business and financial sectors. Bloomberg News provides real-time market data, analysis, and news, making it an important influencer in shaping discussion in business and government.
On January 10, 2025, Bloomberg published an article titled “Indian Business Leader Sparks Outcry with Call for Sunday Work,” which basically means that India, a nation with an 80% Hindu population, is strongly opposed to employees working on Sundays. Sunday has apparently become the world’s day for rest and family time, and any plan to get people to work on that day will be met with strong public outcry, anger or disapproval.
Bloomberg published the following:
• “The head of a multi-billion-dollar Indian company sparked controversy on social media after he said employees should work on Sundays rather than sit at home.” [1]
• “I regret I am not able to make you work on Sundays,” S N Subrahmanyan, chairman and managing director of Larsen & Toubro Ltd., said during an internal discussion with staff this week. “What do you do sitting at home? How long can you stare at your wife, and how long can the wife stare at the husband?” [1]
• “If I can make you work on Sundays, I will be more happy, because I work on Sundays,’ said Subrahmanyan, who heads the country’s largest engineering and construction company.” [1]
• “His views drew criticism from some peers in the business community. RPG Group Chairman Harsh Goenka posted on X that longer working hours was a recipe for burnout and not success.” [1]
Keeping Sunday free from work has become important to people for different reasons. For many, Sunday is seen as the day of rest and worship for religious reasons. For others, Sunday is considered the day to promote work-life balance, allowing people to spend time with family and engage in recreational activities that they say can improve overall well-being and mental health.
However, fighting to maintain Sunday as society’s officially recognized day of rest aligns with working to impose the papal mark of authority on the people. Every time there is a public “outcry” to defend Sunday, this is just one more indication that our world is moving from the biblical Sabbath to the man-made institution of Rome. Sunday rest is historically rooted in papal decrees rather than divine commands and will be one of the signs that will signal the global apostasy that will lead people away from biblical truth.
“Sunday-keeping is an institution of the first beast, and all who submit to obey this institution emphatically worship the first beast and receive his mark, the mark of the beast … Those who worship the beast and his image by observing the first day are certainly idolaters, as were the worshippers of the golden calf” (Advent Review Extra, pages 10 and 11, August, 1850).
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