My friend Shane wrote this post over at God’s Politics.  Every year some friends of mine go down to the Gallery in Philly and do a circus on the sidewalk to promote “Buy Nothing Day.”  It’s done to critique the insanity that is Black Friday and, given the events of this year’s fiasco, it might be something I’ll go to next year.

One Shane’s comments put the violence that happened on Black Friday this year in a chilling perspective for me:

Suddenly the theatrics don’t seem like hyperbole –- the documentaries on the “affluenza epidemic” are not so far-fetched. The antics of theological stuntsters like Rev. Billy preaching about the “Shopocalypse” and casting demons out of Wal-marts don’t seems so over-the-top. It does seem we are up against a demon … Mammon.

Amen.