#MerryChristmas Starbucks! Watch the absurd “war on Christmas” call-to-arms over red coffee cups

[yuiyoshida]

The War on Christmas Season starts earlier every year. Days after Starbucks announced the ritual switch from white cups to red that signals the traditional end of Pumpkin Spice season — complete with custom emoji and everything — the paranoid culture warriors found this season’s cause célèbre. This year’s #redcups are just that — red cups, vaguely reminiscent of the lowly Solo cup, even, stripped of decoration other than the ubiquitous Starbucks logo. And people are pissed.

Not just any people, of course, but the people who readily share videos on Facebook posted by a guy named Joshua Feuerstein. If you were thinking that it was time the Christian right found its very own Guy Fieri, wait no longer. Feuerstein’s a professional fundamentalist Christian social media evangelist — sure, that’s a thing — specializing in carefully-orchestrated videos designed to go viral like “Dear Mr. Atheist … allow me to destroy evolution in 3 minutes!” Feuerstein, who is quite a bit rougher around the edges than your average Duggar, sports a kind of Fred Durstian throwback bro-aesthetic to go with his incredibly shallow sense of where faith and public life should and could intersect. And now he’s taking Starbucks down, because the coffee chain had the audacity to eschew the “winter seasonal” graphic designs that decorated red cups in previous years in favor of a simpler look.

Where have the snowmen and reindeer of yesteryear gone? Why does Starbucks hate Jesus?!

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http://www.salon.com/2015/11/07/merrychristmasstarbucks_watch_the_absurd_war_on_christmas_call_to_arms_over_red_coffee_cups/

[smirkymonkey]

1. Wait, Feuerstein is Christian?

Who knew

[smirkymonkey]

4. Oh and also, this nonsense is getting out of control. Every year it the same rantings by

the Christian lunatics. They need to just stuff it. We're all tired of hearing about it.

[NightWatcher]

2. But Starbucks sells a CHRISTMAS BLEND and an ADVENT CHRISTMAS CALENDAR

See, right there, the word CHRISTMAS is prominently used to sell us all that burnt tasting, overpriced coffee.

[tanyev]

3. Funny how none of them care about the Christmas blitzkrieg on Thanksgiving.

I had to go to the mall last week and got worried that I'd lost track of an entire month.

[saltpoint]

5. So far Starbucks isn't putting a

"Pilate's Light Roast" on their menu, are they?

I think Feuerstein needs to chill the fuck out.

[Bettie]

6. I must have missed a memo

because I never thought that snowflakes were a graphic that only represent a religious version of Christmas.

I foolishly thought that they represent, you know, WINTER!

Also most of the excessively religious people I know tend to also get outraged over Santa and reindeer.

Whack jobs.

[yuiyoshida]

8. I wonder if Bill O'Reilly will jump all over this

meh...

[saltpoint]

7. There must be holiday stickers

at drug stores and other retail stores.

Perhaps Mr. Feuerstein could buy some snowflake stickers, as it appears he really likes snowflake imagery, and slap them onto his red Starbucks coffee cup.

Snowflake stickers: the frailest stay against the War on Christmas!

[IcyPeas]

9. dear christians,

you are not the boss of me. shut up.

[jmowreader]

10. The war on Christmas is over. Christmas lost.

After all these years of their nonexistent and insane "war on Christmas," I no longer want anything to do with that abominable holiday.

[yuiyoshida]

11. HEY!! HERE'S A CUP I WANT FOR XMAS!!!