[TheRealThing]

When you learn to read things as they are written, and not intentionally, or stupidly, twist them into a wrong meaning, maybe I'll not insult you. I made it very plain I wasn't referring to pantheism in the original post. You either twisted, or aren't very smart. Maybe there is an honest reason you ended up in a support trade. Maybe it really isn't your fault.

Have at it RV. You have dodged so many pointed and proven barbs coming your way at this point, you've got a lot of ground to cover. You said the founding fathers held "many" creators in high esteem. I strongly disagree with that as nonsense.

But, as to the business of the Sabbath. The fourth commandment of God to His Chosen, the children of Israel.

Exodus 20:7-11 (KJV)
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

The Sabbath was to be observed on the last day of the week. Jesus was crucified on the day before the Sabbath, on Friday, and rose again on the third day, Sunday. Who really knows if we got our eggs a little scrambled as the result of calendar changes or not? Bible scholars believe that Jesus hung on the cross on Friday and was taken down after He dismissed His spirit, on Friday evening. He was in the tomb from later Friday evening, all during the Sabbath, and was resurrected on Sunday. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, three days. He said He would rise again on the third day. History records that it happened just that way, and was verified by the Roman guard among many others. The point is this. Once the Lord commended His spirit into His Father's hand, the veil covering the Holy of Holies was rent in twain. From top to bottom, torn by God Himself. No longer would man need the services of a priest, access to Him was to be had directly for all men thanks to the restored relationship that Christ had provided between believers and God, by His sacrificial death on the cross.

We Christians observe the Lord's day on the first day of the week. The day our Lord rose again. This is why the founding fathers excepted Sunday from the business week, as belonging to God. The reasonable expectation during that day was that most folks would be in Church, and otherwise in observance of the Sabbath. Now, is our calendar in conflict with the day the Jew observed the Sabbath? It is an argument which goes nowhere. The point is that we do observe the Sabbath and as far as we know we are right about which day of the week we do that.

1 Corinthians 16:1-2 (KJV)
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.