The Sabbath And Alcohol Sales

In Texas, a specific kind of blue law, or law that unbiblically/legalistically prohibits certain sales on the "Sabbath," criminalized the sale of alcohol at arbitrary times on Sundays.  The legal permittance has shifted to allow for a broader timeframe of alcohol purchasing at various establishments as of recent times, but the very motivation behind any iteration of this law is erroneous on the Christian worldview.  This is the case not only because the Sabbath is Biblically binding on all people, as opposed to strictly Jews of Old Testament times as taught by many, if not all, evangelicals (Exodus 35:2, Malachi 3:6).  The timing of the Sabbath from week to week on the level of calendar days is not fixed, among other errors.

A blue law would only be tied to Sunday in the first place because of the myth that the Sabbath is Biblically tied to Sunday in the Gregorian calendar even though 1) the Sabbath is never prescribed for a specific day of the calendar week (there is only a pattern of one day of rest for every six days of work) and 2) if the Sabbath was about no professional establishments operating at all, there would be nothing that should be done to conduct business transactions in a store, not merely the sale of alcohol.  The singling out of alcohol sale/use on Sundays, as if Sunday is the mandatory day of the Sabbath anyway, it absolutely idiotic, but even moreso is the emphasis on specific windows of time within the exact same day-night cycle and calendar day being "legitimate" for selling alcohol.

Since the Sabbath is one day out of seven, it would not matter if alcohol was only sold after 12:00 PM or 10:00 AM, the old and new allowances under Texas law (the latter reportedly enacted in 2021).  It would be prohibited universally during that day!  However, since all human calendars are irrelevant social constructs and the Sabbath is about a pattern rather than a specific, inflexible day (such as Saturday or Sunday) that never floats from one week to another, an employee could sell alcohol on a given day, an act of professional work, and the customer might be only making a purchase on their own personal Sabbath.  The Sabbath days for different individuals could be on different days in the same week.

It is also not true that the Bible says not to drink alcohol on the Sabbath (Deuteronomy 4:2).  As long as someone does not get drunk, descend into alcoholism, or allow alcohol to lead to them actually engaging in some gratuitous physical labor (especially professionally), their alcohol consumption is of course permissible whether it is their Sabbath, someone else's Sabbath day, or any other recurring calendar day.  Most Christians and non-Christians simply have no fucking idea what the Bible actually says about practically anything and are even worse at understanding what is and is not logically necessitated by a certain concept, Biblical or not.  Blue laws as structured in Texas law are contrary to Mosaic Law itself.