NATIONAL AND WORLD SUNDAY LAWS
We are really discussing two types of Sunday laws. The first has been examined above as "Blue Laws". These laws only require the cessation of normal business activity on Sunday. A second type, with its roots in the early-century Sunday laws, will ultimately make its appearance on the social scene once again. We spoke of this type briefly earlier in this page, when we talked about
Constantine's contribution to state-enforced worship. This type of Sunday law actually enforces Sunday-sacredness. Sunday laws in this sense require Sunday to be kept holy, not only in the "blue law" sense, but in the sense that God must be worshiped on that day.|4|
Although many people cannot imagine such a law ever finding popularity in the United States of America, it has been prophesied and will indeed come to pass through out the whole world
Those who doubt should consider history, then, they should imagine to what lengths people will go when they feel threatened. Just let a major economic collapse and/or devastating drought/famine hit the US and the world at large, then listen while the "new right" religious conservatives state that this is all "God's judgment upon us," and you will have the perfect climate for radical and sweeping legislation to "make us good."
We are really discussing two types of Sunday laws. The first has been examined above as "Blue Laws". These laws only require the cessation of normal business activity on Sunday. A second type, with its roots in the early-century Sunday laws, will ultimately make its appearance on the social scene once again. We spoke of this type briefly earlier in this page, when we talked about
Constantine's contribution to state-enforced worship. This type of Sunday law actually enforces Sunday-sacredness. Sunday laws in this sense require Sunday to be kept holy, not only in the "blue law" sense, but in the sense that God must be worshiped on that day.|4|
Although many people cannot imagine such a law ever finding popularity in the United States of America, it has been prophesied and will indeed come to pass through out the whole world
Those who doubt should consider history, then, they should imagine to what lengths people will go when they feel threatened. Just let a major economic collapse and/or devastating drought/famine hit the US and the world at large, then listen while the "new right" religious conservatives state that this is all "God's judgment upon us," and you will have the perfect climate for radical and sweeping legislation to "make us good."