Color me one of those “wrong-headed” conservatives. While I gladly acknowledge the free exercise of commerce, its good for culture to have natural points of harmony between faith and commerce, where we as a people take some time, in unison, as families, to thank God for His many blessings. It’s a good and healthy practice, and I for one am sad to have lived to see its demise in progress. It is something lost.
You are wrongheaded, and I’ll tell you why - in all of your self righteous splendor:
I totally agree it is good for natural points of harmony between faith and commerce....but only a moron would think it’s good to agree with the anti commerce communists atheists in order to achieve it. When you lie down with dogs......you get more than fleas....you get their stenchy poop all over yourself....go take a shower and give liberty a chance.
You’re not alone. I find it particularly grotesque, seeing the time-honored holidays and their historic place in our culture being supplanted by something like the ugly and downright-farcical insanity of “Black Fridays” and its mob of zombie consumers, rushing through doors like a pack of rats in a grain elevator.