A local Holy Man is annoyed by the decline of ‘blue laws’ prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sunday.
More and more states are now toasting new laws that allow for alcohol sales on Sundays. Indiana, Minnesota, and Tennessee are some of the latest. Even my own home state, North Carolina, amended its alcohol laws last year to allow for alcohol sales before noon on the Lord’s Day.
That’s good news, right? If I want a beer after mowing the lawn, what business is that of some idiot preacher?
Oh, wait:
There are also reputable studies which show that, in the long term, Sunday alcohol sales actually result in a loss of money for establishments, typically due to additional overhead costs. Moreover, any tax gains are always exceedingly small in comparison to the price citizens pay in social costs for the luxury of more drinking time on the Christian Sabbath.
But I suggest it’s not the loss of money that ought to be the greatest concern. Instead, it’s the negative impact on religious influence that should be of paramount importance.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the entire alt-Right is all about, what most of the political turmoil in the world is all about — the decline of religion in general, and the Abrahamic faiths in particular, before the paradigms of science. The world has become an uncomfortable place for such as Creech, and they are happy to use the law if they can to constrict everybody else’s life to fit their shoebox-sized world.
There are still Zoroastrians around, so it would be foolish to think that pious nuisances like Reverend Creech are going to disappear. But their ability to put their hands upon their neighbor’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is in steady decline, and that’s a good thing.