In an anti-Starbucks rant video on Facebook, Joshua Feuerstein stood in front of a Starbucks holding their 2015 holiday themed cups claiming that the coffee chain hates Christians and Christmas.
This year’s cups look like a regular Starbucks cup. The cups are a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below, according to the company.
“We have anchored the design with the classic Starbucks holiday red that is bright and exciting,” Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of design and content said in a statement. “The ombré creates a distinctive dimension, fluidity and weightedness.”
Feuerstein’s outrage comes from the fact that Starbucks did not include the phrase “Merry Christmas” on the cups this year and, according to his video, from the fact that Starbucks employees are not allowed to say “Merry Christmas” to their customers.
According to his video, which has been viewed over 11 million times since it was posted on Thursday, Feuerstein went into Starbucks, ordered his coffee and when they asked for his name, he told them it was “Merry Christmas.”
“Guess what, Starbucks?” Feuerstein said. “I tricked you into putting ‘Merry Christmas’ on your cup.”
Feuerstein challenged “great Americans and Christians” to take “coffee selfies” with Christmas messages on Starbucks cups and use the hashtag #MerryChristmasStarbucks.
I was taught as a child that Christmas was inherently a secular holiday. Nowhere in the Bible is it mentioned that Christmas Day is actually the day that Jesus was born, but it is the day that millions of Christians do celebrate it as his birthday. However, there is no Biblical reason that ties the day to Christian practices.
With that being said, I see Feuerstein’s argument and video as a silly attempt to make a petty cause go viral to gain fame. Starbucks does not hate Jesus, Christians or Christmas. Starbucks’ holiday cups have never featured the face of Jesus, the cross or any other symbol that directly connects the cup to the religion. The absence of the phrase should not upset Christians, because it does not matter.
According to The Washington Post, the holiday cups have been a tradition for the company since 1997.
The design “has told a story of the holidays by featuring symbols of the season from vintage ornaments and hand-drawn reindeer to modern vector-illustrated characters,” according to the company’s website. “This year’s design is another way Starbucks is inviting customers to create their own stories with a red cup that mimics a blank canvas. This year we wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories.”
Continue ordering your favorite seasonal drinks from Starbucks throughout this holiday season. If the absence of the phrase “Merry Christmas” disgruntles you that much, do what the designers of the cups entailed for you to do, and decorate your red cup with a plethora of Christmas-time decorations and symbols on their blank, red canvases.
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