SKIRMISHER

The controversy over Starbucks’ “The Way I See It” campaign, which erupted sometime last week when somebody took offense over an “anti-God” passage, is getting bigger as coffeehouse giant stands by its campaign to put “thought-provoking messages on its coffee cups.”

As exemplified by this another cup with some words of wisdom from LAT columnist Joel Stein:

Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can’t wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but Heaven has to step it up a bit. They’re basically getting by because they only have to be better than Hell. — Joel Stein, columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

Isn’t this getting more and more exciting? You can just imagine coffee drinkers splashing cups of scalding-hot caffeinated tasty beverages at other coffee drinkers just because of that little thing called religious dissent. And all these years here we were thinking only level-headed atheists had the liver to enjoy Starbucks-issued coffee.

Stumble it!