"ANYONE WHO INTERFERES WITH A PERSON OBSERVING THE SABBATH SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH."
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Dead Sea Scrolls, don't you just love that olde worlde totalitarianism. You will also note that this directive does not specify any particular denomination or sect. What's important is that the Sabbath is not to be fucked with. The authors probably had some preference in regards to monotheism, but they were quite careful not to thump that tub too hard.
Logically, those who have no concept of the spiritual don't give a whooping funt about the Sabbath. They consider it to be no more than simply another day of the week to pursue their conspicuously consumerist ways.
The age of reason is coming straight down the track with increasing velocity. Those who do have a concept of the spiritual aren't
wasting their time trying to delay the onset. Mainly because it's utterly futile, but also because the plain truth of the matter
is that the preceding several millennia of hierophant ideology haven't exactly brought out the best in humanity.
The average punter doesn't have the ability to see past the life span of their offspring, never mind their grandchildren or any
descendants. They spend a far greater amount of time thinking about their wide screen television or the matching throw-overs for
their armchair / sofa combination.
The human race has inherited a vast amount of architectural and mathematical knowledge from people who could see hundreds of generations beyond their own lifespan. They knew that they were all going to be wiped out;
oh no! - not again!
There is overwhelming evidence to indicate that these ancient polymaths decided to throw their successors a sizeable bone. Those who followed them would otherwise have spent arduous millennia rebuilding civilisation. That would include us, incidentally.
Does that sound like wasting a day of rest bickering over which anti-macassars to purchase from Habitat?
Here endeth todays sermon.