Note: written in the early 2000’s, I thought the idea was apropos to modern times.

The ‘Lords Day Alliance’ is a great example of what is now called “creating a market”.  The LDA was (and vestiges of its ludicrous ideas still remain) a group of fanatical evangelists bent on prying into the private lives of hose around them for the sake of saving souls.  “No work on Sundays” was their motto and a motto that they felt should be upheld by law.  They were so concerned about the welfare of the human soul that they wanted to make it illegal to NOT go to church.  Of course, working the plate was excused as was the preacher, the assistants and the accountant who presumably counted the money.

            All of this is just superfluous, as most people would have no problem in allowing those pious persons to hawk their wares.  The problem arose as it usually does in the propagation of ideas, non-consensually into the lives of others.  This penchant for the religious to be quelled, unquenched and generally unhappy until their narrow view and self-righteous interpretations of an aged, dated and antiquated collection of fear and hate are taken as the literal law of the land.  The reasons for this seem clear:  like a child, they must be validated in their own belief since evidently they are not happy in their own personal validation. 

They are power-mongers, since they must oversee the lives of others and they are true capitalists since they want to corner the market on working itself, at least on Sundays.  What people such as this really want is to rid themselves of any competition whether that be the business of making money or the business of saving souls.  Any good capitalist wants a cornered market for themselves and in the case of these religious zealots, if a few souls get saved in the process, so much the better.