Stores open Thanksgiving Day

When I was a boy in e. Boston where I grew up until about 12 yrs old we had something called Blue Laws influenced by the RCC.

Every retail store was closed including Mom and Pop - illegal to be open - stiff fine on Sundays and holidays.

One Sunday my mother had bacterial pleurisy, the doctor came to our house from his home (he charged us $2.00) and prescribed an antibiotic.
The Dr. had to call the pharmacist (who owned the local drugstore). He had to come in several miles, open the door, and make up the prescription.

Legally he could not charge my stepfather so he let him have it on credit.

Thanksgiving, Christmas - same regulations.

Bars could open after 12 noon but NOTHING by way of food or drink was allowed to leave the bar - although the owners made BIG BUCKS selling 6 packs of beer from the back door.

Every bar had to serve some kind of food, hot dogs, hamburgers, whatever (usually from tiny convection ovens). REALLY bad stuff so they could be called a restaurant or bar and grill..

Just remembering...

 

Yes, the RCC got in on it as well later.

 

Luke 17
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (Note: Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence).

28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

None of those things reiterated above in and of themselves are wrong.
No doubt Noah was doing some of these things, he was married, likewise Lot...

The difference - Who/What you serve is your god

Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Today - Business as usual - like Lot if we now warn of the wrath to come:

Genesis 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

Reminder we were once in the same condition. But now it seems that the sun has set upon grace?...The conditions of both the flood and Sodom prevail in the world.

John 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

 

We do not do any shopping on Thanksgiving nor black friday. Thanksgiving is a time to be with family and to be thankful for what God has done for us. To be thankful for what we have as without our Lord we might not have the things we have now. Shopping on Thanksgiving should be outlawed.
I to remember the blue law. I remember when we came down here for my husband's aunt's funeral our baby was 3 weeks old. Pampers had just come out on the market. We bought some because we thought it would be easier than using cloth diapers for the trip. By the time we got to my husband's parents house it looked like the baby's bottom was set on fire. It was that bad. On a Sunday at that. So we went to a drug store to buy some cloth diapers and you could not buy them on Sunday. But when the store manager heard what had happened, he took the diapers into the office put them in a bag and told the cashier to be quiet and check us out. He then gave us the bag with the cloth diapers. So somethings are an emergency situation but in my book they should at least close all stores on Sunday except for a few pharm. and then do like the blue law was before but allow for an emergency when something does happen.
Thanksgiving and Christmas is now nothing more than retailers getting that all mighty dollar. God is no longer in the picture. It is a commerialized holiday now. No one seems to care why we celibrate Christmas anymore.