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Have you ever received the Christian conspiracy book National Sunday Law in the mail?

Asked by flip86 (6213points) July 23rd, 2013

Or at least heard of it? Do people actually take the content of it seriously?

It claims that the events described in revelation will be triggered by the passing of a national blue law declaring Sunday as a day of rest and worship.

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ETpro's avatar

I had not heard of it till now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. One of the things that concerns me deeply with Christian Fundamentalism, Muslim Fundamentalism and Jewish Fundamentalism is their obsession with deliberately bringing about the end of human life because they think it will benefit them in the afterlife. True Buddhists look for the end of the world as the realization of perfection as well, but they don’t go out and try to trigger it. That seems to uniquely mark the various followers of the God formerly known as El (AKA El’him, Elohim, YHWH and Yahweh, The Trinity and Alah), husband of Asherah and father of Hadad (AKA Baʿal), Mot, Yam as well as a legion of lesser gods.

That said, the Blue Law idea sounds too far from actual scriptural triggers for the end times to be taken very seriously. Most likely, somebody aware of how easy their target audience is to dupe decided to make some outrageous claims and rake in a pile of money thereby. Kind of like when Oral Roberts told his TV and radio audience that if he did not raise $6 million God was going to kill him.

Judi's avatar

Is this published by the 7th Day Adventists? I remember when my sister was Adventist they were always afraid of some law that would force them to worship on Sunday. They were also opposed to the Sunday laws that were in the south if I remember.
I was in Atlanta once and was shocked that they didn’t sell liquor on Sundays. It made me think that maybe the Adventist were on to something even though they personally didn’t even do caffeine much less alcohol!

flip86's avatar

@Judi Yes, it is from the 7th Day Adventists.

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

Modern day Christians will miss the second coming of Christ every bit as much as they accuse the Jews of missing the first coming.

They will not recognize him.

ETpro's avatar

@Judi Indeed it’s a work of the Seventh Day Adventists. Here is more on it from the RationalWiki.com

flip86's avatar

@ETpro Flipping through the book I saw that it was first published in 1983. It circulates through random mailings. There is an order form in the middle of it so people can order more copies and distribute them any way they please.

Also, it seems a bill(called the Blair education bill) that failed to pass more than 100 years ago, is still an imminent threat to these people.

Judi's avatar

If you think about it, this ultra fundamentalist group has the same fears as liberal groups. That religous people with a paticular agenda will try to impose their religous will, even their religous practices on the rest of us.

ETpro's avatar

@Judi While this group’s conspiracy theory claims are absurd and groundless, the concern that American Christians will scuttle the seminal principles of secular government our founders fought so hard to establish is a very real threat worth treating with all seriousness and exposing to the light of day.

Pandora's avatar

I don’t think so but then again, if it isn’t a bill or a private letter in my mail, I just trash the rest. So I may have but I continue to ignore.
They come up close behind scientologist with me.

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