Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’
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#2While we're at it, let's follow the jubilee calendar as well!
EDIT: downvotes?
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#3How about we just work fewer/flexible hours, and spend our spare time on secular pursuits if we so choose?
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#4> But observing this weekly day of rest can actually be a radical act. Indeed, what makes it so obsolete and impractical is precisely what makes it so dangerous.
It was a radical act when introduced. The very religion that inspired it was radical and counter-intuitive. It's fun to see people rediscover that every few years.
edit: the article was way too informed about religious history to be anything other than a snow job by a religious society. Indeed, at the bottom it states that the article was funded by the Templeton Religion Trust.
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#5Another article in favor of the Sabbath:
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#6a pharaonic economy driven by anxiety begets violence, dishonesty, jealousy, theft, the commodification of sex and familial alienation. None of these had a place in the Torahic economy, which was driven not by anxiety but by wholeness, enoughness. In such a society, there was no need to murder, covet, lie, commit adultery or dishonour one’s parents.
Lol. All of that existed in the torahic economy. It never ceases to amaze me at the things people will forget to idealize the past. And from a history professor no less.
But on the point of the article: I'm against all laws that force others to participate in your religion, including preventing people from working on days your religion says are sacred. It's anti-freedom and pro-religion... if you want to force your religion on others, go live in a theocracy.
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#7I'm in. I don't roll on Shabbos!
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#8The result will be the same whether it's called sabbath or "the right to disconnect".
Wages have stagnated and organizations are trying to squeeze more work out of each worker. All that while simultaneously reducing the organization's full-time staff or just cut the total amount of employees.
At some point people will snap or breakdown from working two 12 hour shift jobs each day. I'm joking obviously but it seems like that's what people have to work just to barely survive.
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#9"The Sabbath’s radicalism should be no surprise given the fact that it originated among a community of former slaves"
Just a reminder to readers, there is no historical evidence for the mass jewish enslavement by egyptians as described in the torah.
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#10a pharaonic economy driven by anxiety begets violence, dishonesty, jealousy, theft, the commodification of sex and familial alienation. None of these had a place in the Torahic economy, which was driven not by anxiety but by wholeness, enoughness. In such a society, there was no need to murder, covet, lie, commit adultery or dishonour one’s parents. Lol. All of that existed in the torahic economy. It never ceases to…
He's not idealizing the past. Keep reading:
"It is unknown if these radical commandments were ever followed to the letter."
The "Torahic economy" as referenced by the author in this context is clearly the _idea_ of an economy that does follow the ideals of the Torah. The way things played out in reality could more accurately be referenced as the "Hebrew economy" or something like that.