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The History of Week Ends
The week end is one of the victories of organized labor. The idea that people didn't need to work seven days a week and could get two s off back to back was rooted in the sabbath. This got of edict from god, that ke people didn't have to be indentured servants to the pharaoh. So judaism, christianity, islam, all these monothestic religions have one day a week that that's supposed to be a break. Depending on which religion, you know that that is executed in different ways. But the idea that there is time where to tend to spiritual self, a self outside of work, where one's identity isn