My Christmas mentality: If a store won't promote Christmas re Starbucks, I'm not spending my hard earned money there https://t.co/dfNTiwSojI
— Chuck Nellis (@ChuckNellis) November 5, 2015‘Tis the season for “War on Christmas” stories, and this year Starbucks is the first major group to offend due to its holiday-themed red cups. Last week, the coffee giant unveiled the design of this year’s cups, which have become something of a Starbucks tradition. The company’s designers went for a minimalist look “with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”…. But the design looks slightly different than years past, which have featured snowflakes and other wintery icons. This absence of holiday symbols is, of course, making people FURIOUS…. “What is it about Christmas that Starbucks are afraid of celebrating?” the Christian Institute’s Simon Calvert told Breitbart.
Today’s breaking news from the War on Christmas comes to us straight from the front lines- where Starbucks appears hell-bent (no pun intended) on denying Americans their God-given right to wish one another a “Merry Christmas.” Thanks to the Seattle-based purveyor of America’s drug of choice (Which I can quit whenever I choose…I simply choose not to), what had promised to be a joyous season of brotherhood, peaceful coexistence, and the constant, forced, never-ending reminders of the reason for the season has devolved into anger, recrimination, and epic displays of overcooked righteous outrage. Angry cries of “BOYCOTT!!” are being raised from coast to coast as those who are sick and tired of seeing the baby Jesus disrespected are fighting back against the crass de-Christification of Christmas.
That they’re doing so from parking lots at Targets, Walmarts, and BestBuy stores nationwide is TOTALLY beside the point….
Is it just me, or does Christmas just bring out the worst in people preternaturally predisposed to assuming the world and defaulting to voluble self-righteous outrage? Why are so many so butthurt at the idea of a retailer doing something to celebrate the holiday season (Which is no longer a Christian monopoly, y’all) in their own unique way? Why do so many leap to the assumption that anything that doesn’t reflexively invoke chants of “Merry Christmas!” is yet another salvo in the Atheist Gestapo’s War on Christmas ©? Don’t y’all have better things to worry about? And couldn’t your considerable passion be more productively spent on things that…you know, actually matter?
First they came for our Quad Venti Mochaccinos….
I am glad Starbucks has the plain simple red cups this year. way to represent the holidays to everyone not just to those who are christian
— Kaelyn Marks (@KayKay_Marx) November 7, 2015TIL that Starbucks is rounding Christians up into coffee death camps and making them drink Pagan Spice Lattes. https://t.co/yzVooiNEUQ
— Mark Jaquith (@markjaquith) November 7, 2015
Thankfully, the vast majority of Americans aren’t cursed with simplistic mental processes subject to manipulation by Breitbart and/or other Right-wing propaganda/righteous outrage mills. Being that this is still nominally a free country, Americans remain free to find their outrage and vent their spleen in whatever godly manner feels appropriate. Of course, I also have a free speech right to call them out for being ridiculous and spending far too much time watching Fox News Channel and trolling Right-wing “news” sites on da Interwebz.
LIBERALS!!!! ATHEISTS!!!! WHY DO THEY HATE THE BABY JESUS???
I suppose there’s no satisfying those who believe themselves to be the “Chosen Ones” due to their (self-ascribed) enlightened choice of Christianity…but these folks should probably be reminded that their religion ain’t the only one out there, knowhutimean? Companies like Starbucks understand that the best way to maximize their business is by appealing to people across a diverse spectrum of faiths, colors, and creeds. Honestly, I don’t know that “Merry Christmas” has ever been on Starbucks cups during the holiday season…and besides, they feature a lot of Christmas-themed merchandise on their shelves. Despite what the easily manipulated may think, Starbucks isn’t owned and run by an atheist cabal looking to force Americans into caffeinated death camps- where evil baristas will torture them and force them to renounce their faith on pain of death (or worse, forced ingestion of decaf).
For God so loved the world he gave His only begotten Son so that people could ignore what the Son said and find new and exciting ways to be complete jerks over stupid things.
- Bubba 3:16
Oh…and lest I neglect to mention it, the only “War on Christmas” is the one between the ears of angry Conservatives. If you’re predisposed to take offense, I suspect you will- early AND often. That doesn’t mean you’re justified in your outrage…only that you perhaps take yourself, your beliefs, and your tender sensibilities WAY too seriously.
C’mon, Cupcake…”Starbucks Red Cups Are Emblematic Of The Christian Culture Cleansing Of The West?” Really? Aren’t there more than a few things that actually exist which might be worthy of your considerable righteous outrage? Like wars? Famine? Corruption? Corporate greed? Or is it just easier to allow yourself to be manipulated into focusing on red cups?
Move along, sheeple…no bread and circuses hear….
