An Arizona-based evangelist, Joshua Feuerstein, and “social media personality,” according to his website, had a plan. Feuerstein, who carries a gun, is outraged by his perception that a blank coffee cup is forcing him to “bend his knee” whilst he forces coffee shop employees to write Christmas messages on his cups.
Now, coffee maker Starbucks, has come under fire from some Christians who say the company isn’t repping hard enough for Jesus on its recent understated holiday cups. The problem? Political correctness, according to one evangelical. Good grief, it is Starbucks, a coffee shop, what the hell do they have to do with Christmas? Does anyone with a degree of sanity really care what Starbucks does at Christmas, or any other time of the year, and if you do, why?
Would Jesus really be offended that he didn’t make this year’s Starbucks cup? Am I thankful that I live in a culture where religious persecution is manifested as a coffee chain using plain red cups instead of cups with snowflakes on them? Show me where previous Starbucks Christmas cups had Christ on it. If Jesus was alive today, he’d have no idea what coffee was and just turn it into wine. Remember, little has been said about his views on the future usual shortages of the Pumpkin Spice Latte.
I was told some years ago that saying “Merry Christmas” wasn’t a good idea. Then I noticed I was writing lots of stories about various organizations either forced to take down Nativity scenes and in some cases Christmas trees. In every case it was because Christmas was decided to be a divisive word.
Wait a minute… Christmas as a word is divisive?
What is everyone smoking? For the love of Huckleberry Hound, be offended by Starbuck’s expensive coffee, not by missing snowflakes. Be offended by world hunger and narrow ideas. Do people lie awake at night dreaming of things to be offended about? What empty, shallow lives they all must lead. You don’t have to give up your own beliefs to accept others, that’s the entire point. Celebrate with your family how you see fit and you will always get my seal of approval.
Last word–for the love of a white chocolate mocha – they’re Winter Solstice cups, and if you haven’t noticed Starbucks is playing the game. It’s about money. It is cheaper to make cups of one solid colour and still give the impression of Christmas– and now they have all this free publicity.
Oh dear, call Chicken Little, this time the sky really is falling..
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