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riversedge

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Mon Nov 9, 2015, 08:39 AM Nov 2015

#WTF!! Some Christians Are Super Offended By The New Starbucks Red Cup Design [View all]

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


#WTF!! Some Christians Are Super Offended By The New Starbucks Red Cup Design http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/first-they-came-for-our-venti-frappuccinos?utm_term=.rgPeY9ooK #uniteblue #p2


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.
Starbucks
“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.”
Starbucks
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.

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I am super offended by self-styled Christians constantly whining that they're "persecuted" hobbit709 Nov 2015 #1
Me too Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2015 #10
I'm waiting for them to be fed to the lions at halftime. THEN they can claim persecution. hobbit709 Nov 2015 #11
Exactly Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2015 #12
have you seen the Lions this season? They are awful. Take the Christians in the office pool Takket Nov 2015 #35
You are not the only one. AngryOldDem Nov 2015 #16
Yeah, me too. It's tiring. SammyWinstonJack Nov 2015 #17
I'm offended by Starbucks in general, but... TreasonousBastard Nov 2015 #2
tasteful cup tasty product dembotoz Nov 2015 #3
Then I heartily encourage them to switch to Chick fil A coffee. tanyev Nov 2015 #4
I love Chick Fil A coffee. SO good and much cheaper than Starbucks npk Nov 2015 #33
you DO know what a reichwing bunch chik fil a is, yes? niyad Nov 2015 #37
The end of Christmas as we know it. Cassiopeia Nov 2015 #5
I don't care, I do not go to Starbucks katmondoo Nov 2015 #6
I'm having a very hard time even understanding what the outrage is all about. deutsey Nov 2015 #7
Is ryan_cats Nov 2015 #18
It seems like if some people couldn't find SOMETHING to be outraged about Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2015 #8
A tempest in a coffee cup Art_from_Ark Nov 2015 #9
That cup is just begging for me to hit it with my magic markers. GOLGO 13 Nov 2015 #13
Jesus wept Tree-Hugger Nov 2015 #14
I don't understand. Xyzse Nov 2015 #15
I missed the Bible passage about ice skates and snowflakes as Christmas symbols. Gormy Cuss Nov 2015 #19
Hezekiah, chapter 5. Dr. Strange Nov 2015 #22
Its right here. Xolodno Nov 2015 #25
Yeah, seriosly. smirkymonkey Nov 2015 #42
Am I missing something? Horse with no Name Nov 2015 #20
Didn't the Wise Men come bearing a frankincense and myrrh-flavored double-skim cappuccino deutsey Nov 2015 #21
oh yeah! n/t Horse with no Name Nov 2015 #40
..but a bare-breasted Siren who symbolizes "obsession, addiction and death" is just fine GreatGazoo Nov 2015 #23
They're not Christians, they're a bunch of rw hypocrite clowns ecstatic Nov 2015 #24
I don't drink Starbucks and am not offended, but I like the old one on the left better. Renew Deal Nov 2015 #26
every time I drink a starbucks coffee I am reminded that I hate baby jeebus.... mike_c Nov 2015 #27
Check if your city hall, which shouldn't have any tree at all, is calling it a holiday tree. merrily Nov 2015 #32
Well that's enough goddammit … dhill926 Nov 2015 #28
Wait a minute. I already do that. longship Nov 2015 #29
This from the same spoiled, childish crybabies that gave us "freedom fries" Rocknrule Nov 2015 #30
Oh, come on. A mermaid splaying her tail fin on a red cup is clearly lewd AND Satanic. merrily Nov 2015 #31
It's official. All actual problems in the world have been solved Generic Brad Nov 2015 #34
dear offended assholes--get a life-better yet, get a planet of your own, FAR, FAR away. niyad Nov 2015 #36
Man in the sky assholes are offended? Union Label Nov 2015 #38
I'm offended not for religious reasons, but because it's ugly, plain, and bland Reter Nov 2015 #39
get. a. life. spanone Nov 2015 #41
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