While not all of us have a business that we can shut down one day a week, we all have the power to take a day a week from spending and purchasing. Such a practice, as difficult as it may seem, not only serves those who work in business but also helps to guard our minds and souls against the corrosive dangers of consumer idolatry. Consumerism, in the end, is the devil’s sacrament. And Black Friday is his liturgy. Black Friday is the Good Friday of consumerism—it is the day that we worship the gods of consumerism, greed, and opulence by atoning for the “sins” of simplicity and locality and
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