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i feel like i live in a parallel universe sometimes like did i miss something did starbucks paints these cups red with the blood of innocent slaughtered christians or what

Okay I GOOGLED THIS (and read a FOX news article on it, ew) to find out wtf was up

The top picture is the new cups, and the bottom pic is an example of cups from the past year–usually Starbucks adds Christmas-themed painted designs to the cups, such as ornaments or reindeer, etc.

This year, the cups are just plain red without any decoration–Starbucks said they wanted a minimalist design this year.

Christians, because they’re convinced there’s a war on Christmas, are LOSING THEIR SHIT about the absence of Christmas-y decorations on the cups. Because god forbid that it just be Christmas colors instead of a whole panorama of Christmas things?? Things that weren’t even associated with Christianity at this point???

It’s pretty fuckin wild. 

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rincewitch

christian symbols such as “trees” or “snowflakes”, which jesus invented on december 25th, AD 1

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diegueno

Let's talk about shitty priorities:

Every chance I get, I tell Joshua Feuerstein, the pastor who started this absurd protest.

#StarbucksMerryChristmas#apostasy#Christianity#religion
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Holy Communion

I use to think that it was beautiful.

Now it is another ritual that I have to wait through on those rare times I attend a Christian service.

#religion#christianity#church
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This woman, Kim Davis, who has been jailed for refusal to fulfill her duties as an elected official, and for her refusal to obey a judge's ruling on the matter, bears little or no resemblance to the believers I've known. She comes across to me as a stubborn, self centered and self obsessed individual with little grasp of the belief system she references as she shows complete disregard for the rights of her fellow Americans. It is sad to think anyone would regard this gravely misguided and obviously bigoted individual as a poster girl for “faith in God.

Author Ann Rice on jailed Rowan County, KY, clerk Kim Davis

Source: facebook.com
#kim davis#Ann Rice#theocrats#religion
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Around the nation, big beer producers contribute to the campaigns of politicians who will support policies that discourage competition from local upstarts—for example, taxes on breweries and laws that prevent breweries from selling their kegs directly to consumers (instead of through a distributor). But what's unique about the South is that there's a voting bloc—the Baptists—whose moral stance against alcohol happens to align with large producers' desires to keep new competitors from getting started in the business. The support of Baptists provides Southern politicians with a reason to hinder brewers that politicians in other regions don't have. As a result, the states with the most Baptists tend to have the fewest breweries. What Gohmann found is a correlation, of course, but it's a convincing one. There's no counter-argument that Southerners simply don't like beer: Louisiana happens to be the state with the 10th-highest beer consumption per capita, and South Carolina isn't far behind. And while there are other religious groups—Mormons and Muslims, to name two—that abstain from alcohol and live in high concentrations in areas with lots of breweries, those groups, unlike Baptists, take firmer stances on what they themselves can drink than on what others are allowed to.In fact, there's even more of a religious pressure for temperance in the South than Gohmann has it. While Baptists take the strongest position against alcohol, Methodists have also publicly advocated for temperance. "Between the two of them, they account for a very large proportion of the population in the South," says Nancy Ammerman, a professor of sociology at Boston University.

The South Is the Region With the Fewest Breweries—Here's Why — The Atlantic

Do the Baptists and Methodists realize that they are no better for drinking football beer?

Source: The Atlantic
#Dixie#Beer#alcohol#prohibition#smh#temperaence#Religion
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Hundreds of Vanessa Collier's friends and family gathered Saturday at New Hope Ministries, sitting before an open casket that held the woman they loved, when suddenly the minister overseeing her funeral stopped the service. The memorial could not continue, Pastor Ray Chavez said, as long as pictures of Collier with the love of her life, the spouse she shared two children with, were to be displayed. Chavez said there could be no images of Collier with her wife, Christina. There could be no indication that Collier was gay.

Church in Lakewood stops woman's funeral because she was gay - The Denver Post

If you have a problem with this, tell New Hope Ministries yourself.

Source: The Denver Post
#LGBTQ#Denver#Colorado#bigotry#Lakewood#New Hope Ministries#Pastor Ray Chavez#religion#christianity
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16 January » Seize The Day!: Upcoming Religious Freedom Event Provides An Opportunity For Separation Advocates | Americans United
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Don’t feel bad if you were not aware of that. Most people aren’t. Religious Freedom Day, which is celebrated every Jan. 16, tends to be somewhat obscure. My desk calendar, which includes Groundhog Day, Armed Forces Day and Benito Juarez’s Birthday, does not list Religious Freedom Day.

That’s a shame. The holiday commemorates the Virginia General Assembly’s passage of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom on Jan. 16, 1786. This pioneering legislation, regarded as a precursor to the Constitution’s First Amendment, ended the state-established church in Virginia and went on to guarantee religious liberty for all.

The statute reads in part, “Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.”

#establishment clause#secularism#holidays#religion#Religious Freedom
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Besides being a way to "other" President Obama, it's irrelevant. There's no Constitutional mandate saying a President has to go to church. And frankly, after the way they went after Reverend Wright, I'd be cringing if I were a pastor and the President was considering attendance at my church. Who needs every sermon scrutinized out of context for the gotcha quote that proves Obama is a radical with a radical pastor? Of course it's all noise intended to keep the right wing fundamentalist base hateful and mean. Because that's Christian behavior, don't you know?

Karoli, Politico Is Very Concerned About President Obama's Church Attendance | Crooks and Liars

I suggest that you tell Jim VandeHei, CEO of Politico, what you think about this.

Source: crooksandliars.com
#Politico#Jim VandeHei#establishment clause#religion#church
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After the deaths of 12 children who belonged to “faith healing” families in Idaho, state lawmakers and politicians have refused to bring any manslaughter or murder charges.The families belonged to a Pentecostal group known as the Followers of Christ, and members who seek modern medical care in the event of sickness are punished by the group by excommunication. According to Idaho state law, prayer can be used as a form of treatment and manslaughter, capital murder and negligent homicide charges cannot be filed if a child dies as a result.

The children of Idaho’s ‘faith healing’ families are dying, and state Republicans refuse to stop it

Source: deadstate.org
#Idaho#children#religion#health#Christy Perry
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...this is precisely where the American Jewish community and Jews around the world have taken a turn that is disastrous, by turning the Israeli nation state into “the Jewish state” and making Israel into an idol to be worshiped rather than a political entity like any other political entity, with strengths and deep flaws. Despairing of spiritual salvation after God failed to show up and save us from the Holocaust, increasing numbers of Jews have abandoned the religion of compassion and identification with the most oppressed that was championed by our biblical prophets, and instead come to worship power and to rejoice in Israel’s ability to become the most militarily powerful state in the Middle East. If a Jew today goes into any synagogue in the U.S. or around the world and says, “I don’t believe in God or Torah and I don’t follow the commandments,” most will still welcome you in and urge you to become involved. But say, “I don’t support the State of Israel,” and you are likely to be labeled a “self-hating Jew” or anti-Semite, scorned and dismissed. As Aaron said of the Golden Calf in the Desert, “These are your Gods, O Israel.”

Israel has broken my heart: I’m a rabbi in mourning for a Judaism being murdered by Israel - Salon.com

Source: salon.com
#Judaism#Gaza#Israel#War#Religion
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Collectively as a nation, as Christians, and as human beings, we have failed the least of these. Rather than caring for these children at the border, we don’t know what to do, engulfed by partisan hypocrisy, we are even unable to treat them with basic human dignity. Jesus is at our doorstep, and we have slammed the door in his face. Each of us should be ashamed of our inability to act. Financial cost or political points should no longer matter—but rather as Christians, we should do what the Gospel compels us to do and answer the call by caring for the children who have arrived at our front door.

“We Have Failed at Christianity.” | Acting Franciscan

then there are...

Source: franciscanaction.wordpress.com
#refugees#religion#Christianity#apostasy
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