What is your opinion on the National Sunday Law?

It will come to pass just as sure as the sun rises every day.

"And that no man might buy or sell . . ." Revelation 13:17

Frankly, I really couldn't care less what day Christians think they're supposed to worship on, or what the Bible does or doesn't say about it. It is reasonable to conclude that even the earliest Christian congregations (who were a mix of both Jews and gentiles) held different ideas and followed all kinds of different practices, and worshipped on both saturday and sunday depending on local custom. The rulers of Rome and Constantinople later standardized and enforced sunday worship probably to finally break away from the old Jewish traditions.

In any case, I cannot see any economic or practical reason for having a "day of rest" enforced by the government on everybody, and it smacks of nothing more than religious doctrine. And last I checked, we're not living under a theocracy. Customers, storeowners, and employees should have a right to decide when it is most convenient and profitable for them to work or do business. Telling people that they can't work, do business, or buy booze on sunday is just a disquise for telling them they're supposed to be in church. And it also isn't fair to people of other religions such as Jews and Seventh Day Adventists who observe a different day of the week. Keep the government out of it, and let the free market decide!

This is one of the funniest arguments to me.

1) Let's say the law is passed......WHERE does it say anyone has to go to worship that day??? You don't, to the non-Christian, your Sunday would be a day off. Rest, take it easy, have a soda and chill.

2) If you are a Christian, you worship every day.....so if Sunday is set as a National Sabbath Day....that is a POLITICAL announcement, NOT a SPIRITUAL one. If your faith says that your sabbath is Saturday, then it is STILL Saturday even if you are given "off" on Sunday.

3) Would it be so bad that if some of the blue laws were brought back for one day? For one day that folks, even non-spiritual, could focus on family, friends, etc?

4) Imagine - we'd have to learn PATIENCE and wait 24 hours to shop or go out to eat.....such a burden on all of us!

5) For decades we've been told in the US that we work too hard, too many hours and the stress is killing us. So the Blair Amendment is revived from 114 years ago and everyone has a kitty about it. Geez.

This is just one law I can't get fired up about either way.....the fight is ludicrous in my mind.

Well I would see it as interesting, since many other religions observe the Sabbath on Saturday, and how would the Sunday Law affect them? Would they still be able to have their religious days too? Would they be forced to keep open their businesses on their Sabbath? I think if there were more answers, then we could be more fair about giving an answer.

Some of you are merely incorrect.

Where I live (IL), I cannot buy a beer before noon on Sunday, I have to drive to the next city.

I understand it is the same in KY that alcohol sales are prohibited before noon on Sunday.

In the mid-to-late 80s, in VA, nearly everything was closed on Sunday, by law.

Helio "Well, if I can't get a beer, I guess I'll just haul off and go to church!" Centrist

That sounds like a lot of propaganda around another blatant religious power-grab. If christians don't want to do anything on Sunday, that's fine with me, but the rest of us should be able to get along with our lives. This is the sort of thing that the seperation of church and state should prevent, nobody should be forced to live according to the religious beliefs of another.

Heck, I'd be in an interesting situation there, because I negotiated my weekends to go on the days Friday and Saturday, so I often work on Sunday.

There are very few places that are not open on Sunday. These were laws of the past. And Saturday is the Sabbath and Sunday is the Lord's Day.Why do we not have the Sunday Blue laws any longer? Because of GREED

Catholic Christian

Why should we be FORCED into following the beliefs of one religion? If I had a restaurant, I wouldn't want to be forced to keep it closed on the most profitable day of the week! Most church goers like to go out to eat so THEY won't have to work. That's fine for them, but others should never be forced to do the same.

Yes, the Sunday law would be a good thing, no matter what anyone believes.

Anyway sunday is already a day of rest in most of country. Weekends are weekends no matter what ya believe.

When I was a kid no stores were open on Sunday, there was no law as to that but just common practice. And it worked quite well, really, for everyone. I mean really, think about it, if all the stores are closed on Sunday, big deal, it ain't like they aren't open 6 other days.

This is not so much a matter of religion, is it? Sunday is still Sunday to everyone anyway. The end of the weekend.

You guys are so lame, you don't even know a good thing when ya hear it. Anyway if the vast Christian majority wants this law, too bad, it will be law. And, as always, you non-Chtistians get to benefit too.