Am I missing something? Didn’t the article decry the lack of reverence for another thing besides Sunday? Why was the other thing ignored in the commentary? I wonder what the piece would have looked like if the other thing was considered.

“According to these statements, ignoring [christmas] means ignoring eternal life. Remaining indifferent to the desecration of [christmas] means ignoring our Creator. The Odessa American also claims that by patronizing stores on [christmas day] we are encouraging people to violate [a sacred day].”

“Here we see the secular news media advocating for the closure of businesses on [christmas day] in order to restore the sanctity of that day and encourage renewed reverence of God within society. They argue that the relentless pace of modern life and the 24/7 consumer culture have eroded the spirituality of [christmas], replacing rest and faith with commercial pursuits. By closing businesses on this day, they contend that we can reclaim God, faith, family, and community.”

You get the picture.

This is similar to every sermon any of us have ever heard on Isaiah 66:23 – “And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.”

What does the pastor say after reading the verse? “We can therefore see that the sanctity of the Sabbath will endure for all eternity. Let us have our closing prayer.”

Wait, didn’t the verse indicate that something else has sanctity which parallels the Sabbath? Why is it always omitted? Because it ventures off of the beaten path into “peculiar” territory. We don’t like being peculiar. It’s complicated, and usually very lonely. Also, it touches upon a sensitive nerve. Is the same application reasonable on this article?

Isn’t it evident that there is pink elephant standing in the room, or might it be a sacred cow? How is it possible to compartmentalize things such that we can so clearly see the issue with the world’s fascination with Sunday sacredness, but are completely blind to the sacred pink elephant cow which demonstrates our allegiance with not only the apostate protestant and catholic world, but the entire pagan, atheist, and secular population of the earth?

Don’t get me wrong… I was there myself a few years ago, so I’m not being judgmental. It’s simply astonishing how I, together with all humankind, am capable of such cognitive dissonance. How about you?

“1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. ”
Genesis 2:1-3 KJV

The Seventh Day Sabbath is the Lord thy God.

“8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ”
Exodus 20:8-11 KJV