The Church of Stop Shopping
At first it’s hard to take seriously a young, very blond, apparently fundamentalist Christian preacher named “Reverend Billy,” who, with his Stop Shopping Choir and the rest of the Church of Stop Shopping, leads demonstrations at Starbucks and other hotbeds of consumerism.
But this does not appear to be a gimmick. The Reverend really wants to help people break their compulsion to shop, get free of the consumerism that plagues us and often ruins our lives, and help us reconnect with what’s really important.
It is important to me that the Church of Stop Shopping exists, because I need to know that there is at least one group of people standing behind me as I begin the route of “stopping shopping” in my own life.
I think Reverend Billy is a little bit legalistic.
The problems that a lot of people have is in the flesh. It caused compulsive buying.
It would be very meaning full if his church members buy lots of essential goods and share them with the needy in the United States and the World.