A life that revolves around professional work is in a sense a life of enslavement to a social construct. It is true that someone has no excuse for not coming to rationalism no matter their professional lives, for reason is inherently true, universally accessible, and what governs the truth about everything other than itself. It is also true that, especially for some more than others, professional labor can occupy so much time in a person's life that he or she does not have the chance to contemplate, savor, or discuss (though discussion is secondary to directly grasping reason) the truths of rationalism. Even the standard five day workweek that is the norm in current American society encroaches on much of people's lives and makes it so that often pointless, micromanaged work consumes an abundance of time.
Any Christian who wholeheartedly embraces Biblic morality and cares about the philosophical nature of reality, dictated by the laws of logic, will of course care more about reason, God, and other such matters of explicit philosophy more than any amount of pride in professional work, any amount of compensation, and any kind of cultural norm that glorifies the workplace as anywhere near the most important parts of life. It is irrationalistic and contrary to Christian ethics to think that it is rational or Biblical for the workplace to dominate so many lives as it does, whether evangelicals want to realize it or not. It is not that cutting the workweek from five days to a specific smaller number is obligatory, but that eliminating as much time spent in professional labor as possible is rational, as well as objectively good on the Christian worldview.
As such, a four day workweek or even one that is shorter is something that should be welcomed by Christians. There is no Biblical obligation to specifically have a three or four or five day workweek, as long as there is at least one day free of non-exempt professional labor, though even which day of the week this is has no actual Biblical specifications; as long as one day of rest is had for every six days of work in a week, the obligation is upheld. To spend four days a week working professionally would honor this command as much as working for six days a week. As long as a culture can still sustain necessary roles like those of doctors and have its people flourish on a smaller workweek, then abolishing the expectation or norm of working for even five days a week is for the best.
However, since professional work is only a social construct and a means to an end, it is certainly not something that should steal time and energy away from discovering and savoring rationalistic truths, a relationship with God, friends, a significant other, one's children, or even the ability to enjoy entertainment. Thus, it would be logically necessary that it is irrational to structure societies so that people are forced or pressured by economic concerns or social encouragement to set up their lives so that their outward activities ultimately revolve around work, rather than the other way around. It would in turn follow that it is irrational to intentionally strive to have a culture that spends more waking time working than not, as long as this is pragmatically unnecessary (and automation only makes this easier).
Fighting any structural changes to the status quo that protect the economic stability of workers while diminishing the amount of time they have to work is also of course irrationalistic in light of these facts. Social conditioning, subjective delight in work, apathy towards truth, or sheet boredom are the only reasons why someone would ever choose to dedicate 40 hours or more of their life to work if they had the chance to not do so. Anyone who embraces even the contemporary status quo at the expense of a life outwardly oriented more towards celebrating the objective, absolutely certain truths of rationalistic philosophy is an insect of a human being, and for plenty of people, time spent working is cited as an alleged excuse as to why they are not more familiar with reason and various philosophical issues. Rationalistic Christians need to be the most fierce opponents of the societal obsession with social constructs and needless labor.
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