Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

[underpants]

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Currently the Bills are waxing the Colts 24-8
Washington and Miami are fighting it out. DC up 10-7 but Miami is threatening
The Rams and the Seahawks are going back and forth. Seattle down by 11.

God I hope no Christians are observing this instead of observing the Sabbath.

My daughter and I went to a sporting goods store and a grocery store today - FILLED with heathens.

BTW I grew up in Virginia when "blue laws" ruled Sunday's. I guess we found a new idol.

[underpants]

3. Oy!

[Matariki]

14. Oy, Shabbos goy.

[mucifer]

2. The Sabbath was yesterday Shanah Tovah to my people!

The Sabbath ended at sundown. Tonight is Rosh Hashanah.

Nah I"m not religious. But, something made me post that. I'm not a football fan either. I'm not sure why I'm on this thread.

[underpants]

4. We have apples and honey

My daughter goes to a Jewish daycare.

We couldn't be more WASP.

[pinboy3niner]

5. That's just, like, your opinion, man

[TexasProgresive]

6. Back in the evil blue law days

when there were independent department stores in Houston, the owners fought the corporate owned chain stores to keep the blue laws. It had nothing to do with keeping the Sabbath as many of these stores were owned by Jewish familes who keep the Sabbath from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. The reason they wanted to keep the blue laws is so their employees could have a day off. They would have to remain open to compete with the chain stores which would not give them and real increase in profits.

Well it's all history. I don't know if there are any independently owned department stores anywhere. I personally liked the fact that retail stores were owned by people who not only lived in the community but were actually involved in the day to day running of the store.

[Snobblevitch]

19. I live in Minnesota and we still have two blue laws on the books.

Auto dealers are closed on Sundays. Only the biggest dealers would like to be open on Sundays. Basically, the sales would be shifted from the other six days and not result in more auto sale

In Minnesota, the liquor stores are licensed by municipality. There are city-owned liquor stores and privately owned liquor stores. There is no liquor sold at grocery stores, except for 3.2 beer. The liquor stores are all closed on Sundays. The majority of the owners of the liquor stores do not want the law changed. The store owners on the border with Wisconsin would like the law changed. I think many liquor stores in Wisconsin are open 365 days a year.

[PeaceNikki]

7. Um, you forgot that the Packers are beating the Bears!!

[underpants]

8. Um

Neither is mentioned in the scriptures.

The Browns aren't really either but we know she feels for us

[PeaceNikki]

11. Um, the Packers are the Holy Grail of the NFL. Screaming Meemie will back me up on that.

[underpants]

12. I read the Dick Schaap books

I also experienced St. Bernie

[PeaceNikki]

13. And you're aware of the name of this award, I assume?

[olddots]

9. bars used to close at midnight on Saturdays

that created the popular after hour clubs .We humans are so full of shit .

[redwitch]

10. Upstate NY county we can't buy beer from 12-3 on Good Friday.

Not sure what that is supposed to accomplish.

[Igel]

15. The Pilgrims and other Xian denominations usurped the "Sabbath" designation for Sunday.

This was, sadly, was because Sunday was the traditional day of worship. The change from Sabbath to Sunday was done under mostly Papal authority, and at one point those who kept the Sabbath who were Xians were condemned, and Saturday was a fast day. I love the irony in that: Anti-Catholic Protestant-descended denominations ultimately basing their day of worship on the authority of the Catholic church.

Still, it was widely understood that Saturday was day 7 of the week. Muslims observe day 6. Jews, day 7. Xians proudly said that they observed the first day of the week, Sunday, in honor of Jesus' resurrection. They knew this was a change in the day of worship, and were proud of their justification.

Some time in the late '70s this seemed to change in a big way. People had argued this off and on for years before, but usually by saying a day had been somehow lost. Even though older traditions didn't need the excuse.

Some calendars are even printed with Sunday as day 7.

I grew up in MD. They had blue laws. As a Sabbath keeper, it was difficult: You work M-F, you're observant on Saturday and can't shop, then the stores are closed on Sunday. The blue laws vanished before this was a big problem for me.

Now I live in TX and there's a blue-law vestige. You can't buy alcohol before Sunday noon, and can't buy hard liquor on Sunday at all.

[Juicy_Bellows]

16. Remember the Sabbath - their final tour kicks off early next year.

http://www.blacksabbath.com/

[MineralMan]

17. Clearly, God is a Bills fan.

His fantasy football is reality, eh?

[ileus]

18. Football starts after 12 in most areas.