Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

i remember reading about reverend billy several years ago and was impressed at the time by what i thought was a very innovative, funny, and dead on way to deal with the intense materialism that characterizes our society...

The Reverend Billy is the founder and head of the Church of Stop Shopping. His singers - 30 sopranos, altos, tenors and basses - are all members of the Choir of the Church of Stop Shopping.

He has a band too. It's all a performance, of course, joyous and very funny. But the gospel being preached here is serious too, which is why he is prepared to get arrested for it. (And why he will shortly be in court on charges of trespassing in Starbucks.)

He means to save us from what he calls the impending Shopocalypse, a time in America, and maybe it is upon us in Britain too, when community is supplanted by shopping malls, where real spirituality is replaced by the worship of the credit card and where freedom - that thing that George Bush boasts about - is perverted by our enslavement to the addiction of buying.

there is so much in this world so very much more worthwhile than STUFF... sometimes, it seems like the entire focus of people everywhere is STUFF, MORE STUFF, BETTER STUFF, COOLER STUFF, and, of course, the money you have to have to BUY MORE STUFF...

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