ReformedFundy
Puritan Board Freshman
I was listening to a Christian radio program the other day, one of my personal favorites, and an interesting question on the Sabbath came up as the topic. The gist of what the radio host said was "in our society today, many, many employers require employees to work on Sundays, at least one or two out of the month(think Wal-Mart, Target, McDonald's, etc)." He went on further to say "it is not right for Christians to demand that they get preferential treatment in getting their Sundays off, and they should submit to their employers and be a better witness by working one or two Sundays a month."
I have been denied positions at jobs over the years, because I adamantly refuse to work Sundays on religious grounds. I don't work jobs where it would be necessary to work on Sunday(think EMT personnel, hospitals, police, fire, etc), all the jobs that I work are retail/hospitality. While I thought for a long time about what the radio host said, I came to the conclusion that the logic was overly-simplistic, and kind of man-centric. But I've heard it spouted by others since then, and before then, and I can never quite figure out how to respond to such persons who think this way. How would you address this matter?
I have been denied positions at jobs over the years, because I adamantly refuse to work Sundays on religious grounds. I don't work jobs where it would be necessary to work on Sunday(think EMT personnel, hospitals, police, fire, etc), all the jobs that I work are retail/hospitality. While I thought for a long time about what the radio host said, I came to the conclusion that the logic was overly-simplistic, and kind of man-centric. But I've heard it spouted by others since then, and before then, and I can never quite figure out how to respond to such persons who think this way. How would you address this matter?