#WTF!! Some Christians Are Super Offended By The New Starbucks Red Cup Design

[riversedge]

I really think these 'christians' hand around with Ben Carson!!


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Some Christians Are Super Offended By The New Starbucks Red Cup Design

Seeing red.
posted on Nov. 7, 2015, at 11:38 a.m.
David Mack

‘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.





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.









“The Starbucks coffee cup change smells more of political correctness than a consumer-led change,” British conservative MP David Burrowes told right-wing website Breitbart London.
"The Starbucks coffee cup change smells more of political correctness than a consumer-led change," British conservative MP David Burrowes told right-wing website Breitbart London.
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“What is it about Christmas that Starbucks are afraid of celebrating?” the Christian Institute’s Simon Calvert told Breitbart.
“Haven’t they heard it’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the season of good will to ALL men? They should get involved and stop being scrooges.”
"Haven’t they heard it’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the season of good will to ALL men? They should get involved and stop being scrooges.”
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PEOPLE ARE MAD.
FURIOUS.
OUTRAGED.
SEETHING.
☕🙅
Others, well, not so much.

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)

Starbucks took Merry Christmas off their cups b/c of Christ; so tell them your name is Merry Christmas & they'll have to put it on the cup!
— Adam Roth (@adamusrothus)

So, what do you think?
I’m outraged. This is the end of Christmas as we know it.
Minimalism is overrated. I prefer the ~retro~ look.
Can’t talk/Don’t care. Drinking coffee.

[hobbit709]

1. I am super offended by self-styled Christians constantly whining that they're "persecuted"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Me too

Beyond that, I just don't get it. More people than not identify as Christian (of one denomination or another) in this country, most politicians identify as "Christian" and Christians seem to enjoy greater deference and protections in terms of their religious beliefs/sensibilities than any other religion in this country. If the Christians complaining about persecution really truly understood what Christians are experiencing in some countries like North Korea, I think that they might change their tune. What I think that some of them really can't seem to handle and hate is being forced to live in a pluralistic society where not everybody is like them and won't pander to their every whim or conform to their beliefs/lifestyle.

[hobbit709]

11. I'm waiting for them to be fed to the lions at halftime. THEN they can claim persecution.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Exactly

I don't think that the people complaining about persecution *really* know what it is and they probably confuse being persecution with being "offended" about SOMETHING and not being able to make it go away.

[Takket]

35. have you seen the Lions this season? They are awful. Take the Christians in the office pool

[AngryOldDem]

16. You are not the only one.

They don't know the meaning of the word. Hell, if anyone here is being persecuted, it's the rest of us who have to listen to this bullshit every year.

I suggest these "Christians" go to where true persecution of religion exists, and then come back and tell us just how important a throw-away Dixie cup is in the entire scheme of things.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Yeah, me too. It's tiring.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I'm offended by Starbucks in general, but...

the cups look kinda cool without the obligatory seasonal hashups.

And, do the "Christians" know that's a two-tailed Viking mermaid on that cup?

The original woodcut:

[dembotoz]

3. tasteful cup tasty product

must everything be gaudy?

[tanyev]

4. Then I heartily encourage them to switch to Chick fil A coffee.

[npk]

33. I love Chick Fil A coffee. SO good and much cheaper than Starbucks

I never actually care much about the cup it's served in. Weird.

[niyad]

37. you DO know what a reichwing bunch chik fil a is, yes?

[Cassiopeia]

5. The end of Christmas as we know it.

FFS, that happened decades ago when the Christmas shit started getting displayed in September.

[katmondoo]

6. I don't care, I do not go to Starbucks

They are over rated and over priced. Also I like the Christmas cup, not everything has to have Jesus on it to feel like Christmas

[deutsey]

7. I'm having a very hard time even understanding what the outrage is all about.

If I cared, I guess I'd look more deeply into this, but as it is

[ryan_cats]

18. Is

Is there a Ralphs around here?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. It seems like if some people couldn't find SOMETHING to be outraged about

their heads would explode

[Art_from_Ark]

9. A tempest in a coffee cup

[GOLGO 13]

13. That cup is just begging for me to hit it with my magic markers.

I'll give them one righteous looking cup of Joe.

[Tree-Hugger]

14. Jesus wept

1.) Try being a Christian over in Syria or anywhere that ISIL is hanging out. Then we'll talk persecution.

2.) If these fuckwits had any sort of education, they would know that red is the color of Christ's passion. It is also the color of Pentecost. So, there's your Christian symbolism.

3.) The cup is ombre. Starbucks is merely responding to overdone design trends made popular by twee instagrammers and hipsters.

Only poor persecuted American Christians (and apparently some dimwitted Brits) can take a red, green, and white cup and cry that it's a sign of "Christian oppression."

I wonder what would piss Jesus off more? An overpriced red solo cup for lattes or our child poverty rate?

[Xyzse]

15. I don't understand.

Heck, at one point or another they were trying to boycott Starbucks for having Satanic images in their designs.

Punks just want to be outraged at some thing or another. I don't know, but I feel like they just have to have some thing to be mad at to bring them together.

I just find that sad.

[Gormy Cuss]

19. I missed the Bible passage about ice skates and snowflakes as Christmas symbols.

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Is it from the book of Macy's?

[Dr. Strange]

22. Hezekiah, chapter 5.

Lo, when the Christmas season cometh upon thy house, be sure to follow the signs and ways of the Lord thy God. This doth include, but doth not be limited to:
snowflakes,
peppermint-mocha coffee flavorings,
those hard candies that always get stuck together (the ones that the elders of the tribe seem to enjoy),
cherry cordials,
ice skates (especially hockey skates, like those that carried the Children of Israel forth from Egypt),
wreaths.
And when thou decoratest thy home, use many lights. For this will be a sign unto God that thou lovest Him. As it is written, Johovah loves a good light show, yea, especially when synchronized to Trans-Siberian Orchestra music.
Also, forgettest thou not the watching of the Peanuts Christmas special. For it is teh awesome, and Snoopy is the greatest dog ever.

[Xolodno]

25. Its right here.

Jeremiah 10

[2] Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
[3] for the customs of the peoples are false.
A tree from the forest is cut down,
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
[4] Men deck it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.


And Revelation 11

[9] For three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
[10] and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.

[smirkymonkey]

42. Yeah, seriosly.

Will baby Jesus get outraged at the lack of pagan winter symbols on coffee cups and does it mean we are all going to hell?

[Horse with no Name]

20. Am I missing something?

Do people not just drink the beverage and throw the cup away OR do they place it on their mantle in a Christmas display for Jesus? Because, well, we all know that Jesus drank at Starbucks so it is a very nice memento of that occasion...but still??

[deutsey]

21. Didn't the Wise Men come bearing a frankincense and myrrh-flavored double-skim cappuccino

with gold sprinkles for Mary?

[Horse with no Name]

40. oh yeah! n/t

[GreatGazoo]

23. ..but a bare-breasted Siren who symbolizes "obsession, addiction and death" is just fine

In mythology, sirens are consistently seen as a personification of the ocean -- and that's not a good thing. They're brutal sociopaths who murder you by being attractive. According to scholars, they would sing an "irresistibly sweet" song that "lapped both body and soul in[to] a fatal lethargy." Sailors who crossed paths with a siren would become so obsessed that they would crash into the rocks and die.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19688_7-horrifying-historical-origins-famous-corporate-logos.html

[ecstatic]

24. They're not Christians, they're a bunch of rw hypocrite clowns

who claim they support the constitution, want small government, and freedom, yet they want to control our bodies and now the designs on cups. If they want a different cup, they should start their own business and use whatever cups they want!

[Renew Deal]

26. I don't drink Starbucks and am not offended, but I like the old one on the left better.

It's just nicer looking.

[mike_c]

27. every time I drink a starbucks coffee I am reminded that I hate baby jeebus....

Except I NEVER drink Starbucks' awful burnt coffee. So I'm waging war on christmas somewhere else. Not sure where yet, so I'm open to suggestions.

[merrily]

32. Check if your city hall, which shouldn't have any tree at all, is calling it a holiday tree.

If it is, you know what to do.

[dhill926]

28. Well that's enough goddammit …

No more overpriced burnt tasting coffee for me!

[longship]

29. Wait a minute. I already do that.

I mean not drink that poison.

I love coffee, but that is not what Starbucks serves.

BTW, my morning cup is percolated French roast.

[Rocknrule]

30. This from the same spoiled, childish crybabies that gave us "freedom fries"

They wouldn't be happy unless the cups said "Worship white Christian NRA Jesus or move to France, motherfucker!!!"

[merrily]

31. Oh, come on. A mermaid splaying her tail fin on a red cup is clearly lewd AND Satanic.

They HAD to speak up.

[Generic Brad]

34. It's official. All actual problems in the world have been solved

If people find outrage in this of all things, then they clearly are not paying attention to the world around them.

[niyad]

36. dear offended assholes--get a life-better yet, get a planet of your own, FAR, FAR away.

[Union Label]

38. Man in the sky assholes are offended?

This is the sounds of not 100 fucks being given.

[Reter]

39. I'm offended not for religious reasons, but because it's ugly, plain, and bland

I mean seriously, plain red? Look how cool it looked in 2010!

[spanone]

41. get. a. life.