VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Rev Canon Dr Alan Billings, an Anglican priest in Sheffield |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130701.html][img=images/2013/07/pic130701.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Going shopping: it's a tradition that dates way into the past, here oop North. It's as popular here in the big city as it is in the local countryside and villages. The origins are obscure. Many think it dates back well into our pagan past. Others think it is essentially a Christian innovation. 

As an essentially Christian thing, it is difficult to know which story from the Big Book of Magic Stuff to relate it to, there are just so many. 

People often go shopping together. It's a popular way of making friends. Anyone can join in, men and women, young and old, Christians and people with the wrong beliefs. The things we buy while shopping remind us of the more spiritual aspects of life. We see the work that the Invisible Magic Friend did to create our bread; we see the delicate patterns in the flowers we buy; we see the mind altering possibilities in our bottle of vodka.

Ultimately, what this shows is that we can read just about any message we like into anything at all, even something like going shopping, or [url=http://www.derbyshireuk.net/derbyshire_welldressing2013.html]well dressing[/url].

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