It is the weekend because people used to take Sunday off for Church. Saturday was added when unions began pushing for the 40 hour week.
Your celebration of Christmas still has religious roots. More than one, I might add. Almost every culture in the northern Hemisphere has a religious celebration around midwinter. Religion shaped your life whether or not to acknowledge it.
A Flaming Chalice is a Symbol of my faith. It is a wide lipped stemmed cup.
Why does my religion affect my shopping? It is basically about our 7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. However other Principle affect it too. I bring canvas bags everywhere. I try to fix first, then buy used, and buy only what I need. (Reduce, reuse, then recycle and restore)I try to buy organic locally produced goods and services. Things that cannot be produced locally, like coffee, I buy organic and fair trade. I try to buy from small local businesses and not large big box stores. If I have to go to big box stores, I shop at stores that pay their workers better and provide better benefits (Lowe's not Home Depot, Target not Walmart, Costco not Sam's).
When we were looking at a car, we had narrowed it down to the Prius and the hybrid Lexus 400 SUV. Then I remembered a Sermon I had heard earlier in the year about how we need to think about our Principles in every choice we make. We bought the Prius.
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It is the weekend because people used to take Sunday off for Church. Saturday was added when unions began pushing for the 40 hour week.
Your celebration of Christmas still has religious roots. More than one, I might add. Almost every culture in the northern Hemisphere has a religious celebration around midwinter. Religion shaped your life whether or not to acknowledge it.
A Flaming Chalice is a Symbol of my faith. It is a wide lipped stemmed cup.
Why does my religion affect my shopping? It is basically about our 7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. However other Principle affect it too. I bring canvas bags everywhere. I try to fix first, then buy used, and buy only what I need. (Reduce, reuse, then recycle and restore)I try to buy organic locally produced goods and services. Things that cannot be produced locally, like coffee, I buy organic and fair trade. I try to buy from small local businesses and not large big box stores. If I have to go to big box stores, I shop at stores that pay their workers better and provide better benefits (Lowe's not Home Depot, Target not Walmart, Costco not Sam's).
When we were looking at a car, we had narrowed it down to the Prius and the hybrid Lexus 400 SUV. Then I remembered a Sermon I had heard earlier in the year about how we need to think about our Principles in every choice we make. We bought the Prius.
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PumpkinAngel
No,
PumpkinAngel
No, I told her that was fine and did not have a problem with it.
It is others on here assuming that the couple was not religious or atheist, etc.
My dad says that I'm not very smart for doing this, but: I tend to not pay attention to what's going on in the world, just in my small section of it.
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