There are voices outside of the Adventist community that also recognize the connection between Sunday rest legislation and Project 2025. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a nonprofit organization representing atheists that advocates for the separation of church and state, has warned that efforts to advance Sunday observance through Project 2025 would undermine the very liberty of conscience upon which the United States was founded.
On October 3, 2025, the Freedom From Religion Foundation published the following:
• “Sunday used to be the dreariest day of the week. Ask me. I was a child in the 1960s when ‘blue laws’ made everyone blue. I remember, especially in the coldest days of winter, feeling like I was under house arrest on Sundays. Now the creators of scary Project 2025 want to close down Sundays again, and America should be forewarned and refuse.” [1]
• “Today, we take for granted that you can do many of the things on Sunday that you can do on other days, perhaps reduced hours notwithstanding. Will this still be the case if Project 2025 becomes a reality? Not if the Heritage Foundation gets its way.” [1]
• “Let’s turn to page 589 of Project 2025, to a subsection titled ‘Sabbath Rest.’ ‘God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest, and until very recently the Judeo-Christian tradition sought to honor that mandate by moral and legal regulation of work on that day,’ states the document. ‘Moreover, a shared day off makes it possible for families and communities to enjoy time off together, rather than as atomized individuals, and provides a healthier cadence of life for everyone. Unfortunately, the communal day of rest has eroded under the pressures of consumerism and secularism, especially for low-income workers.’ The document continues: ‘That day would default to Sunday.” [1]
• “Project 2025 assures us that churches, naturally, would, in most instances, be exempt from this rule! It pretends to care about workers, but clearly the real goal is to get more bodies back into churches because of less competition.” [1]
• “I suppose we should feel fortunate that Project 2025 doesn’t command the death penalty … yet, for working on the Sabbath.” [1]
• “Who has the time to plow through 900-plus pages of the bureaucratic authoritarianism that is Project 2025? Not many of us—and that’s what its creators are banking on. The dire political consequences of Project 2025, such as eliminating checks and balances and amassing all regulatory power in the White House, may seem like remote threats. But the threat to our Sundays is personal.” [1]
Even though Seventh-day Adventists are ideologically and theologically distinct from atheists and other secular groups, the coming crisis will impact everyone—regardless of religious or political beliefs. Sunday laws and Project 2025 represent real threats to the constitutional liberties that protect all citizens. When civil authorities begin enforcing religious observance, the result will not lead to spiritual renewal but to the erosion of freedom.
We would indeed have a far better world if every heart, including those of atheists and agnostics, were touched by the grace and transforming power of Christ. A society guided by the principles of love, mercy, justice, truth, and humility would experience true renewal and lasting peace. However, it is not the duty of the state to make people Christians, nor does forced religion produce genuine faith. Conversion cannot come through legislation or political agendas—it comes only through the convicting power of the Holy Spirit and the witness of loving, converted believers.
The real work of revival will begin when the churches get out of Washington, D.C., and stop looking for political power and return to the mission fields where Jesus ministered—the highways and byways, the prisons, the halfway houses, the nursing homes, the shelters, the soup kitchens, and the forgotten corners of society. It is there, among the suffering and neglected, that the gospel shines brightest and the kingdom of God truly advances.
Sources
[1] https://freethoughtnow.org/project-2025-wants-to-make-your-sabbath-dull-dreary-and-dolorous/
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