Man needs rest

On the day this goes live, you're probably enjoying your weekend. (do, you've earned it, maybe). You might use Saturday for shopping.
And forcing people who to be honest, who will probably work tomorrow, to work all weekend.
Want people to repsect the Lord's Day?
Stop shopping on Sunday!
Now, I know you can't always help when you run out of food, and I think there are some benefits of having businesses opened part of the day (especially if you have young kids). But, in spite of only being 36, I actually remember a time when almost every business was closed on Sundays.
Because, even people who didn't go to church knew you needed a day off. (And go to church, stop making excuses not to)!
And this was not in a super Conservative, Christian state. This was in Illinois.
I was at a store once, and I mentioned to the girl working there, something about going to church (I don't remember what it was about), but, she said she hadn't been to church in a month.
And this WAS in a super Conservative southern state (my homestate of South Carolina)
This is wrong. She WANTED to go to church, but her employer prevented it (Gee, it's almost like Americans don't know that Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act (I'm not so good with the Roman numerals,Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)..
I'm sure other Anglophone Christian majority Christians have something similar.
I know Sunday doesn't replace the Sabbath (and no, it's not the "Mark of the beast", as some scaremongering billboards I've seen recently have said, in fact, there's a reason we worship on Sunday, The Resurrection really happened and it's important to remember, that Jesus is our Sabbath, as we have our rest in him,Jesus, I trust in you! ).
But man wasn't made to work himself to death. In fact, let's look at some verses about WHY we have a day of rest to begin with.
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he had rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (Genesis 2:1-3).
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt though labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 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.." (Exodus 20:8-11)
"Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath day of the LORD thy God; in it, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;, that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." (Deuteronomy 5:12-14)
I think though, ultimately, and this is what Christians need to be remembering. Because, here's the thing, the inverse to forgetting a day of rest and working WAY too much, is forgetting the point of having a day of rest to begin with.
"And he said unto them, 'the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore, the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath". (Mark 2:27-28) Besides that being Jesus admitting he's God in the Gospel of Mark (see? Mark DOES portray Jesus as divine), it's also Jesus telling us to remember the entire point of the Sabbath (which I, I believe is best explained by the Book of Genesis).

*All verses are from the King James Version