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Whether or not you believe in a divine entity, this time of year serves to remind us all that the mighty dollar should not be our de facto deity, and that department stores, however glorious, should not be our surrogate churches. Reverend Billy, performance artist and leader of The Church of Stop Shopping, is a man on a mission to save the souls of those who spend their lives in the service of credit. On an individual, national or international level, the darkness of debt results in hell on earth, damning those who succumb to its power to a future eternally in the red. We therefore asked the good Rev. to shine a light on the shopocalypse. In this special SuicideGirls's sermon he shows us the path to redemption -- through congregation (outside of the now literally as well as metaphorically empty malls) and communion with our own vital human spirit -- and offers some surprising commandments for our personal and global, financial and spiritual, wellbeing in 2009:
Click on link above for Rev. Billy's "sermon."Whether or not you believe in a divine entity, this time of year serves to remind us... more
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by Nicole
Just a reminder, today is Buy Nothing Day (see BND story). Don't worry if you're reading this a little late and have already hit the stores, the star of the just-released documentary What Would Jesus Buy?, Reverend Billy of The Church of Stop Shopping, is on hand to take your consumerism confessions via his online confessional. No Hail Mary's necessary, just a quick prayer to honor Winona Ryder, the Patron Saint of Buy Nothing Day, and absolution from shopping sin and eternal debt can be yours.
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Just a reminder, today is Buy Nothing Day (see BND story). Don't... more
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