Does Chick-Fil-A open on Sundays?

[JDPriestly]

Because if they do, they are sinning against one of the Ten Commandments, obviously a pretty serious transgression.

Deuteronomy 5:

12 “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+5&version=NIV

[physioex]

1. They are closed Sundays...EOM

[lunatica]

2. I've read that they don't open on Sundays

[taterguy]

5. Do you believe everything you read?

[JI7]

7. in this case it's true, i have seen it for myself

they are always closed on sundays.

[xmas74]

13. It's true.

They're not open on Sundays. I know a manager and he said that it's their policy.

[truth2power]

24. Good grief! There's one right down the road from me. They've ALWAYS been closed on Sundays. n/t

[emilyg]

28. Closed on Sundays. Always.

[derby378]

3. You have to ask?

They're famous for remaining closed on Sunday. If you're jonesing for one of their chicken sandwiches, you only have a few hours until they reopen on Monday.

[hlthe2b]

4. Nope.. never have.

[Pool Hall Ace]

6. Isn't the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday?

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. That's the Jewish Sabbath.

[Kalidurga]

9. Well that is the one they should be concerned about,

you know since God has never ever changed and is eternal and all that blather.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. But, but the new Testament supersceded the Jewish one

I am paraphrasing here. Why it is observed on Sunday and not on Friday to Saturday... and not even sundown to sundown.

I used to have long and fun discussions with a friend of mine who was studying to become a Jesuit... lost track of him.

[notadmblnd]

29. Actually, the sabbath was changed by the early Christian church

Sometime after the emperor Constantine converted. It was done to get more people to go to church. Sunday was also the day that pagans worshiped the Sun god.
I'm not aware of anything in the NT that would indicate the Bible calls for the change (letters of Paul perhaps?). If you know, could you point it out to me?

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. It is not in the new testament

It is church doctrine, again going back to the early church... and it had to do with Jews NOT accepting the Church. (this led to long into the night talks as you can imagine)

But you are correct... doing it on Sunday goes to Constantine, because it was the day off in Rome and Constantine adopted the upstart religion as the state religion, so he needed to adapt it to old ways... so a few things in the new doctrine go back to Greece.

[notadmblnd]

32. Rome.

Constantine was the Roman emperor.

[MNBrewer]

14. Pretty sure that Deuteronomy verse refers to the Jewish Sabbath

Pagan Christians decided later that the risen Sun God would better be worshipped on Sunday.

[Major Nikon]

19. God gets Friday off too for the Muslims

I guess that means god gets a 3 day weekend every week.

Not a bad deal really.

[SDjack]

10. That is my understanding. Also, xians changed their day of worship to Sunday,

to show that they have broken with the Old Testament law. But, I don't recall Jesus mandating that change. Anyway, now it's all messed up.

[WillowTree]

12. It was to honor the fact that Christ rose from the dead on Easter Sunday.

[part man all 86]

22. It is not the jewish sabbath it is God's sabbath.

No where in the bible is the sabbath sunday. No where. It was changed by the catholic church in 325 ad. Also changed passover, the day Jesus died a wednesday in 31 ad. or 3791 on the hebrew calendar to easter. Jesus said he would only give one sign and that is to be in the grave for three days and three nights(72 hours). Good friday to easter sunday is only one day and half a day(36 hours). Thus the premise that sunday is the day jesus rose from his sleep is false. He rose on the sabbath exactly 72 hours later. Remember God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Man cannot change the day. Also the sabbath is older than the ten commandments. In Mark 7 -9 it states the world follows the commandments of man over the commandments of God. But that just my take on it, believe away otherwise. I mean no harm in showing this truth.

[WillowTree]

25. Christian religions changed the observance of their "day of rest" to Sunday...

....as an observance of Christ rising from the dead on Easter Sunday. It had (and has) nothing whatever to do with, nor does it change in any way, the Jewish Sabbath.

Nice story that works out to support your premise but there is absolutely no way that anyone really knows for sure what specific day of the week he died. Also a nice trick that you have him dying in 31 AD. I guess the tradition that Christ was 33 years old when he died is wrong, too.

It's all a matter of tradition anyway.

[part man all 86]

34. Man cannot change God's sabbath. Jesus, born in 4 bc. to 31 ad is 33 1/2 years.

Yet you ignored the only sign that Jesus gave, 3 days and 3 nights. Easter is not even mentioned in the bible. The last supper is the passover meal, the 14th of the nisan, the 15th is an annual sabbath or high day, so that week had 2 sabbaths, thursday and saturday. Since my days in traditional christianity to today I have always heard 4 bc is his birth year because King Herod died in 3 bc. And did Paul celebrate easter or Peter or John? No. At the time of the council of Nicea there were two competing themes, good friday/easter and passover/sabbath, they decided on their own to change it. Passover is biblical and easter is not.

[JDPriestly]

35. The date was not reckoned based on Passover somehow?

Because the date of Passover in 32 B.C. might be something you could figure out.

There are a lot of assumptions about the date that can't be proved regardless of the date that you choose, but isn't that the essence of religion anyway? Arbitrary assumptions that people choose to believe? Nothing wrong with that. We do it all the time in others things as well, but religion is particularly dependent on that psychological willingness of people to suspend the need for proof.

[RebelOne]

38. No, it is because god rested on the 7th day.

So it has always been declared the day of rest. Doesn't anyone here know the bible? I am an atheist and know more about the bible than a lot of so-called Christians.

[Raine]

11. They are closed on Sundays, I know because there is one near by me

and I've seen they're closed. You won't catch them being hypocrites on that.

[jmowreader]

15. The sign in front of every Chick-fil-A says "Closed Sunday"

They don't even operate on Sundays in their mall food court stores, and mall operators across CfA's sphere of operation have had to rewrite their food court contracts to accommodate them.

Now, it seems to me that Sunday would be an ideal day for them to be open--nice Christian families would go to church then hit CfA for lunch and of course CfA would reward them for their piety by giving a 10 percent discount to anyone who presented a church bulletin (lots of restaurants in the Bible Belt do this), but they won't do it.

[woodsprite]

16. In the olden days when I was growing up,

Many religious people wouldn't be involved with
business transactions on Sunday. My dad had to
make an emergency business trip and needed a
haircut. He contacted his barber who made a special
trip to his shop to give my dad his haircut. He would
take no payment for his trouble because it was Sunday.
He said he wasn't working. He was doing a favor for a
friend.

[jmowreader]

17. In the olden days when we were growing up,

it was quite often illegal to transact business on Sunday, because of the Blue Laws.

[JI7]

21. but Chick Fila doesn't discriminate at their food places so they would't offer such a discount

only to people who go to church.

i think all this focus on just the restaurant is kind of wrong. the problem is not the restaurant or how they treat employees or customers.

it's that the guy who makes money from it is donating to horrible causes. so if we go there to eat he gets more money to give to the hate .

[earthside]

18. Who the hell cares? n/t

[Ter]

20. Spoke a little too soon, didn't you?

n/t

[spanone]

23. thou shalt not eat chicken on sunday

[longship]

27. Only if you have a rather large can opener.

Or, an oxyacetylene torch. Or, an air hammer. I prefer the latter because it would raise a rather big noise.

The noisier the better. Plus, it would be really cool if you served only atheists and gays on Sunday once you got in and got the fryers going.

Keep on keepin' on.

[lynne]

31. Just goes to prove -

- the old saying that you should never ask a question unless you already know the answer.

God-fearing people that they are, Chick Fil A has never been open on Sunday.

[JDPriestly]

36. I've obviously never been near a Chick Fil A restaurant.

I'm glad to see that they are at least consistent in fulfilling their Christian obligations. Now, what about the one that says "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?

That's the hard one, and I think they have some work to do there.

[Kurovski]

33. And so now we are left to wonder about menstruating employees.

Leviticus is pretty rough on that deal.

[JDPriestly]

37. And skin blemishes. No one with a rash should be permitted.