Why isn't there an outcry from the religious right about "black friday"?

[BlueMan Votes]

I know that the term for the day after thanksgiving has been around for awhile- to supposedly mark the day that many retailers started to show a profit for the year.
But- It's the first time i've seen used so widely and publicly- Mcdonald's even has a sign showing their hours for "Black Friday"...

my point...?
when i was young and going to parochial school- "Black Friday" was synonymous with "Good Friday" -the Friday before Easter- the day that the Christ died.

it seems to me that some of those groups complaining about a 'war on christmas' would pick up on that being a trivialization of the Passion, and run with it.

[behindenemylins]

1. We all know why...

$$$

[Populist_Prole]

5. Ding ding ding ding ding! Winner

Interesting how they scream bloody murder about any remotely perceived slight of "their" holiday, yet they blissfully look the other way at the crass commercialism.

Corporate Jesus I guess.

[RepublicansRZombies]

16. Corporate Jesus also wants them to run away from discussions with evil liberals and has provided

the perfect excuse...

Shopping!!

[defacto7]

2. The last thing my family has ever done

is go shopping the Friday after Thanksgiving. Ain't no way I go out on that day.

[liberal_at_heart]

3. this family has no choice

finally getting my kids winter clothes. Jeans are especially expensive so we load up on jeans and long sleeve shirts.

[defacto7]

4. Are those sales really that good?

We get our bargains buying off season. We get winter stuff in the spring and summer and vice versa. I think stuff is even cheaper if you look around the rest of the year. And you don't take you life in your hands fighting crowds.

[RepublicansRZombies]

19. yup- you can get a lot of new clothes on ebay for instance, probably better made

I know it supports ebay, but it also helps support other Americans who bought too much stuff and are trying to pay their bills off.

[BlueMan Votes]

21. Good quality used clothing is often better than cheaply made new stuff.

I buy most of my clothes on ebay- ALL of my sweaters are cashmere, and all of my flannel is portuguese.

[Warpy]

26. I go to an art show

I'll support local artists and craftspeople. To hell with corporations.

[LeftInTX]

6. Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

http://www.revbilly.com/

[coalition_unwilling]

7. Serious question: does anyone know how the day acquired the moniker "Black"? - n/t

[LeftInTX]

8. I think it has to do with retailers making a profit hence "in the black" vs "in the red"

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Ah, that makes sense. I've heard that it is the Xmas

shopping season that puts retailers into a profit for the year, if there are to be profits.

Weird though, because 'Black' connotes calamity in other contexts (like the stock market).

Thanks for that annotation. Much appreciated.

[DollarBillHines]

10. That's it. 25% of WalMart sales are on BF

In the Black

[jmowreader]

12. That's the official reason

The real reason, I always thought, is it is the first day of the Siege of Stalingrad the rest of y'all call the holiday season. Retailers appreciate the business, but the line workers do not appreciate getting screamed at as much as they do on BF. And it's usually because you ran out of whatever doorbuster the customer wanted.

[Shadowflash]

11. I just find it ironic

that we spend Thanksgiving day celebrating and giving thanks for family and what we are blessed to have and, the very next day, people are willing to go out and fight and trample other people for cheap stuff.

I avoid it like the plague, myself.

[brokechris]

13. a trivialization of the passion?

seriously? it has nothing whatsoever with Easter. It is all about money--traditionally retailers are in the red ink (debt) before--and Thanksgiving pulls them into the black (money).

The terminology offends no one. What religious people could be offended by is that greed has taken over and is now more important than thankfulness (which is what the holiday was originally intended to be about).

Me--I'm not religious and prefer football at the local sports bar to shopping so I have no complaints.

[BlueMan Votes]

15. The term "happy holidays" offends these people.

and it's not how i feel about it- my lutheran upbringing didn't stick. i'm athiest.

btw- if you're not religious- how can you know that 'the terminology offends no one'...?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. Black Friday is an retail industry term than went viral

It has no religious meeting and originally was not tied to Turkeyday sales.

[BlueMan Votes]

23. the term "Black Friday" has also been used for the friday before easter...

so yes- it does have a religious meaning as well.

and it was a religious term long before it was a retail one.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

24. It is also called Good Friday...

[BlueMan Votes]

25. exactly.

[Iggo]

17. Because the religious right is all about them dollars.

[larocks4552s]

18. Right, money is all they really care about

Those selfish hypocrites...

[datasuspect]

20. BLACK SABBATH

[librechik]

22. They're all camped out in front of the local Wal-Mart, that's why. n/t

[maxrandb]

27. Because they've "Sold Their Souls to the Company Store" n/t

[CheapShotArtist]

28. Because they're fake Christians.

They only pay attention to the parts of the Bible that they want to follow. The Religious Right clearly has no problems with "bearing false witness" and rich people refusing to help out the poor. Otherwise, they wouldn't have voted for Der Mittenfuhrer or the GOP in general!
The term "Conservative Christian" is nothing but an oxymoron.