Is There a European Bible Belt?

[Kuciwalker]

People don't work 7 days a week. Some people work on weekends and get other days off.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Do they do it on their own accord because they're Christian?

Yup. There are some companies out there run by good Christians who don't open on Sundays. There might be another national chain or two, but I can't think of any.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker




What's the point of a weekend if you can't go out?

Restaurants, bars and the like are open. Just don't expect to go shopping for clothes or go to the supermarket or something on Sunday.

[Kuciwalker]

Still weekends are supposed to be for shopping and stuff, because that's when you aren't working.

[Heresson]

So why is someone annoyed that someone's chosing sunday? Go to another restaurant. Sunday is a way God telling You: fast food is bad for your health!
I was only once annoyed at sunday. It was very hot summer, and I was a kid. It was in Rzeszow, in the most religious corner of Poland. And my father insisted on going to the church somewhere in the centre (while we stayed in the suburbs), and to sight-see the city. Several hours in the great heat without ANYTHING opened. It's not like in my city or Warsaw, that some shops are closed. I've found 1-2 shops open in entire city. I've almost died of thirst (there are places where You theorethicaly can get water for free from a well but they're always broken). But God gave me sth in return: I've found 5 zl (the biggest ammount of money You can find as a one coin, that's the only time I've found it) on my way back home.

[Kuciwalker]

So why is someone annoyed that someone's chosing sunday?

Why should they choose any day? Just stay open all week.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Still weekends are supposed to be for shopping and stuff, because that's when you aren't working.

You can go shopping Saturday.

[Alexander's Horse]

There is a bible belt in Europe - conservative rural areas for the most part, places like rural Bavaria in Germany (where the Pope comes from), Asturias in Spain, Northern Scotland and Wales in the UK.

We have one in Australia - the US has the deep South, We have the Deep North i.e. Queensland.

It makes you wonder if climate and geography has something to do with it.

[Kuciwalker]

Or I could go out with friends Saturday and go shopping Sunday. Or the other way around.

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[Maniac]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

So why is someone annoyed that someone's chosing sunday?

Why should they choose any day? Just stay open all week.

Shop owners want their rest too.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

So why is someone annoyed that someone's chosing sunday?

Why should they choose any day? Just stay open all week.

Because God Wills It

[Kuciwalker]

Then they can have someone else be manager on the weekend. That's how it works in the US.

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[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Heresson
Because God Wills It

Fairy tales

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
There is a bible belt in Europe - conservative rural areas for the most part, places like rural Bavaria in Germany (where the Pope comes from), Asturias in Spain.

We have one in Australia - the US has the deep South, We have the Deep North i.e. Queensland.

It makes you wonder if climate and geography has something to do with it.

They do. Climate and geography determine whether land is suitable for agriculture. Agricultural areas tend ot be more conservative and religious.

[Alexander's Horse]

depends on land ownership too - the parts of Europe with landless farmers working on large estates or renting land was more left wing than religious. The parts with lots of small holders was conservative and more religious.