Behind the Crass Commercialism
Lies the Message of the Ages
As most Americans scamper about, making final Thanksgiving
preparations, some of us are already casting our longing and lustful eyes upon “Black
Friday,” the unofficial holiday of crass commercialism, wherein many department
stores and other retail companies conduct mass “blowout” sales to entice the
masses to buy their products.
If any day on fiscal calendar displays the best and worst of
American Capitalism, it is Black Friday. It is a good day for the American
economy, but a bad day in a sense for our souls, as many of us join in on the
mad and mass feeding frenzy for the one last unneeded electronic trinket that
will probably be broken or unused come January.
While many of us are thinking about this faux holiday of
wanton consumerism, I think there is another “Black Friday” we all should be
pondering. It is the black and gloomy day wherein our Lord Jesus Christ went to
the cross of Calvary and died for our sins. That is the only “Black Friday” we
as Christians should be considering this holiday season.
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