Sunday Melts Into Just Part of the Week

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Sunday is no longer, as the writer H.L. Mencken put it, merely "a day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell."



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Sunday Melts Into Just Part of the Week

Once a Special Day for Religion and Family, Sunday Starting to Melt Into Just Part of the Week


TED ANTHONY

Associated Press


Once, within living memory, it was a day apart in many places: a 24-hour stretch of family time when liquor was unavailable, church was the rule, shopping was impossible and - in some towns - weekend staples like tending the lawn and playing in the park met with hearty disapproval. But America changed, and it dragged Sunday along with it.


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"You have a commodification of everything in American life - our time, our space, our experiences," McCrossen says. "And that puts a lot of pressure ... to open up Sunday because there's so much profit to be made on this day that most people don't work."


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In Maine, it wasn't until 1990 that voters repealed a law barring Sunday shopping at supermarkets and department stores. In Texas, as late as 1985, everything from kitchenware to air conditioners to curtains couldn't be sold on two consecutive weekend days - a move designed to outlaw them on Sunday.


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Today, 31 states permit Sunday sales of liquor, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. In the past two years, nine states initiated Sunday sales - including Massachusetts, where some of the earliest moral-conduct laws were passed. New Jersey-based Commerce Bank - a bank! - has focused an entire promotional campaign around doing business on Sundays.


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In 2000, a Parade-commissioned study found 70 percent of Americans say they do what they want on Sundays. An overwhelming 90 percent like Sunday more than or as much as any other day of the week, and 92 percent said they spent time with family. The margin of error was 2 percent.


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[The Zanti Regent]

1. nice to see 70% do what they want on Sundays

Hopefully more and more people will see what a fraud churches are and deicde that it's time to tax churches and take those bible thumping liars off of welfare!

[realisticphish]

2. I think

the idea of a separate holy day is stupid, anyway. If you are a true christian (or belong to another religion that has a sabbath), you should live your religion all week, not have one day to suck up to God


:hippie: