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Monday, November 9, 2015

Cups and Christmas



Starbucks 2015 red cups—the ones causing a hubbub (apparently)


Come on people will you get a grip on Biblical reality? Who cares if Starbucks, which the last time I looked was a secular company, does not put a Nativity Scene or print "Merry Christmas on their "holiday" cups?

First of all people, get a grip, it is their company. They can do whatever they want to do with their cups. What if they wanted to put a devil on their cup, what then? How many of you who are complaining about the cup design have a "Dirt Devil vacuum in your house?

Second, why do you think a non-Christian, secular, and capitalistic company should put "Merry Christmas" on their cups anyway? What if they wanted to come to your house and print something foul or evil on your cup-ware? You can't expect non-believers to behave in the way that you want them to behave.

Third, why are you so easily offended or thrown off keel? Are you really bent out of shape because a secular company does not print "Merry Christmas" on their cups? Why Merry Christmas? Why not "Happy Hanukka", or "Eid ul Adha"? It makes no sense to me when so called Christians get so bent out of shape over something so trivial. Seems Satan wins again when Christians can forget to be loving, patient, kind, and share the gospel when it is so much more easier to get in a knot over what is left off a cup.

Fourth, will you really let this ruin your holiday, oops I said holiday instead of Christmas, season? Why do you want the cups to say "Merry Christmas anyways?" We don't celebrate the mass, as a matter of fact we reject the mass. So why do we want to wish people to have a merry mass anyways?

Folks get a grip. Starbucks doesn't want you or money anyway. They have said more than once that if you support traditional marriage they don't need you or want you and you can buy your coffee somewhere else. So, go get a paper cup, write what you want on it and pour your coffee in it. Leave poor secular, non-Christian, plain red coffee cup Starbucks alone.












4 comments:

  1. I have mugs here at home with Danny Boy on them and one with my name on from Nashville. I've never seen cups with Happy Christmas here in cafes and the like.
    Most good to read Gregg.
    Yvonne.

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  2. I completely missed this latest brouhaha. Probably because I don't drink coffee. :)

    But agree with you - "Seems Satan wins again when Christians can forget to be loving, patient, kind, and share the gospel when it is so much more easier to get in a knot over what is left off a cup."

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