Walmart employee trampled to death by Christmas shoppers
I'm sure many of you have already seen this. My prayer is that it causes many of us to rethink our hysterical addiction to consumption. For people to rip a door off of its hinges, trample a man to death, and then complain when the store was being shut down because of the death -- all to "save money" by buying stuff -- seems to lend itself to only one explanation: the intoxication of consumerism.
May we have the compassion to love man more than money and the conviction to reject the sirens of stuff for the joy that can be found only in Christ. May He be honored in our giving and receiving this season...
posted by Matthew at 9:34 PM
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a pretty interesting commentary/documentary on this is the movie "What Would Jesus Buy?" I think it came out last year and im not even sure it was put together by Christians (even in a loose sense of the word) but it is a biting satire on specifically our worship of stuff around Christmas. Check it out.
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