The “Anti-God” Starbucks Cup
Filed under: Sacred Cows, Strange Artifacts
Starbucks’ “The Way I See It” campaign is about collecting people’s opinion and printing the most “thoughtful” of them on the side of a Starbucks cup. One of which is the “anti-God” message below that got this Ohio woman’s blood boiling.
“Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure.”
Now the woman, Michelle Incanno, no longer feels like going back to a Starbucks that seems to treat the beings she loves as a “figment of our imagination.” She’d rather have someone else retrieve her favorite large, house-brewed coffee with nonfat milk and two Splenda, and have the tasty caffeinated beverage exorcised by a priest before ever drinking it.
Stumble it!
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May 8th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I don’t want ANY religious or political messages with my coffee. That cup looks expensive. Do you think Starbucks could serve their coffee in a plain cup and cut the price? They should not be insulting customers who are willing to pay big bucks for mediocre coffee and stale pastries in an often less-than-clean store.