Fundamentalists think that every little detail of the Sabbath Law should be observed and carried out. Their view, in the opinion of others, is somewhat extreme and is probably the group that would concur with the statement in question most. If there were no rules telling Christians what to do on the Sabbath this would probably be the group that would formulate some. They take the view that God gave his life for us, so we should repay the favour in exactly the same way. But, we should repay God for all the goodness he has gave us.
You can see the view of the two above groups particularly well and can probably relate to one of their views but you should understand them. This is unless you are a Christian who doesn’t care at all about their religion and in that case you would agree most definitely with the above statement and see it as totally infallible. And, in my opinion, these are the sorts of people that hardly know what religion they are.
With the exception to the above group the worst people, I think, are those of the Liberal view who are fed up with worshiping their God on the Sabbath. These are the people who take the view that there should be no laws telling Christians what to do on a Sunday simply because they could not be bothered carrying them out. They may use the argument that there is to be valuable money to be earned, which is a valid point, but still does not give an excuse to not honour your creator: at least a little bit.
Some people just do not recognise the fact that God sacrificed his life for man and that that deserves a bit of remuneration. This is primarily why they think that they should not have to do anything on the Sabbath.
Some say that it is not practical for them to worship God on the Sabbath due to change in the ages, the industrial revolution and so on, has meant that people have more to do on a Sunday, shops have taken this to extreme, though, , led by retailing giant Marks and Spencer’s, they are now open for business on Sunday, the same with pubs. This is because maximum profit is to be earned on a Sunday and it is maybe understandable in these ages that this happens.
In my opinion, after weighing up all the arguments, I think that the one group of people, and indeed the minority of the Christian religion, the “Keep Sunday Special” campaigners have got it right. They take the view that Sunday should be a day that should be totally be devoted to God and that absolutely no un-necessary work should be done. I agree with this because lying down and having a day of rest after, for most people, a working, stressful week, is not all that hard and doing no work is certainly no big task. This is basically the height of difficulty involved in the Sabbath Laws so therefore I do not agree with the above statement, conclusion, there should be laws telling Christians what to do on a Sunday.
Philip O’ Hare
