Starbucks Removes Christmas From Coffee Cups

~Anastasia~ · Nov 13, 2015

I have one FB account with well over 1500 friends, most of whom are evangelical or non-denom Christians (many are very fundamentalist). Not one of them has said anything about this Starbucks cup that showed up on my newsfeed.

I do have ONE post on that account about Starbucks cups. It's from a non-Christian friend. She and her friends are making fun of Christians. I posted on that thread to tell her that none of my friends were concerned about it and the only posts I'd seen were basically about how stupid the supposed controversy is and how many other things we should be concerned with. (Her reply, btw, was that I obviously knew "normal, well-adjusted people" - for what that's worth, if anyone is curious. It did shut down the conversation though.)

My other FB account is nearly all Orthodox Christians. They are the ones saying this is a stupid controversy, if they say anything at all. Most of them are ignoring it.

Seems to me like a piece designed to paint Christians in a bad light.

topcare · Nov 13, 2015

ZaidaBoBaida said:
Now, I'm hungry. Thanks Guys!

There is nothing like some good paklava (aka baklava) and a good Cappuccino. Yumm!

Orthodoxjay1 · Nov 13, 2015

Kylissa said:
I have one FB account with well over 1500 friends, most of whom are evangelical or non-denom Christians (many are very fundamentalist). Not one of them has said anything about this Starbucks cup that showed up on my newsfeed.

I do have ONE post on that account about Starbucks cups. It's from a non-Christian friend. She and her friends are making fun of Christians. I posted on that thread to tell her that none of my friends were concerned about it and the only posts I'd seen were basically about how stupid the supposed controversy is and how many other things we should be concerned with. (Her reply, btw, was that I obviously knew "normal, well-adjusted people" - for what that's worth, if anyone is curious. It did shut down the conversation though.)

My other FB account is nearly all Orthodox Christians. They are the ones saying this is a stupid controversy, if they say anything at all. Most of them are ignoring it.

Seems to me like a piece designed to paint Christians in a bad light.

fascinating social media is like the new mob anarchy.

Orthodoxjay1 · Nov 13, 2015

Kylissa said:
I have one FB account with well over 1500 friends, most of whom are evangelical or non-denom Christians (many are very fundamentalist). Not one of them has said anything about this Starbucks cup that showed up on my newsfeed.

I do have ONE post on that account about Starbucks cups. It's from a non-Christian friend. She and her friends are making fun of Christians. I posted on that thread to tell her that none of my friends were concerned about it and the only posts I'd seen were basically about how stupid the supposed controversy is and how many other things we should be concerned with. (Her reply, btw, was that I obviously knew "normal, well-adjusted people" - for what that's worth, if anyone is curious. It did shut down the conversation though.)

My other FB account is nearly all Orthodox Christians. They are the ones saying this is a stupid controversy, if they say anything at all. Most of them are ignoring it.

Seems to me like a piece designed to paint Christians in a bad light.

It does seem like the media not even trying to be a neautral party anymore when it comes to Christians (of all stripes)

gzt · Nov 13, 2015

Again GetReligion noted the media outlets weren't exactly slanting the story but rather played it down the middle.

~Anastasia~ · Nov 14, 2015

Orthodoxjay1 said:
fascinating social media is like the new mob anarchy.

I don't know, but the particular friend groups I've cultivated over many years sure gives me a couple of perspectives. Having managed to include some very ANTI-Christian friends at the same time makes it quite - interesting.

That's part of the reason I created a new account when I converted. (That, and even more for the sake of not scandalizing my family.)

(I actually enjoy seeing what can be learned by social media. I used to be involved in online marketing, so I have various things like Pinterest with tens of thousands of followers, and the statistics reveal a lot about trends and opinion among those groups, etc. Facebook is no different, except the number of friends allowed is very limited.)

buzuxi02 · Nov 14, 2015

topcare said:
There is nothing like some good paklava (aka baklava) and a good Cappuccino Yumm!

I prefer a galactoboureko with a cold frappe. Ironically thats one dessert the Turks usually dont take credit for inspite of Its half greek, half turkish name.

topcare · Nov 14, 2015

buzuxi02 said:
galactoboureko

Looked that up it sounds good

ZaidaBoBaida · Nov 14, 2015

Quit making me hungry!

Anhelyna · Nov 15, 2015

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Baklava

YUM !

prodromos · Nov 15, 2015

buzuxi02 said:
I prefer a galactoboureko with a cold frappe. Ironically thats one dessert the Turks usually dont take credit for inspite of Its half greek, half turkish name.

Oy! we've entered the fast. No more talk of delectable Greek dairy products

prodromos · Nov 15, 2015

topcare said:
Looked that up it sounds good

You have no idea how good

gzt · Nov 15, 2015

I guess we'll have to figure out how to make that with lentils, then.

~Anastasia~ · Nov 15, 2015

Dark-roasted lentils?

buzuxi02 · Nov 15, 2015

prdromos said:
Oy! we've entered the fast. No more talk of delectable Greek dairy products

Actually you bring up another thing. Perhaps thats why galactobureko and bouyatsa is not claimed by the Turks. Since Turks are originally mongols perhaps they were lactose intolerant.
They do like to claim they Invented yogurt. But the way yogurt Is produced it rids the undigestable enzymes and thus can be eaten by any lactose intolerant stomach.

~Anastasia~ · Nov 16, 2015

buzuxi02 said:
Actually you bring up another thing. Perhaps thats why galactobureko and bouyatsa is not claimed by the Turks. Since Turks are originally mongols perhaps they were lactose intolerant.
They do like to claim they Invented yogurt. But the way yogurt Is produced it rids the undigestable enzymes and thus can be eaten by any lactose intolerant stomach.

Interesting. I never looked into this but it explains why yogurt is the one dairy product I can eat without issue and indeed, has become essential to my digestion.

Shieldmaiden4Christ · Nov 16, 2015

buzuxi02 said:
Actually you bring up another thing. Perhaps thats why galactobureko and bouyatsa is not claimed by the Turks. Since Turks are originally mongols perhaps they were lactose intolerant.
They do like to claim they Invented yogurt. But the way yogurt Is produced it rids the undigestable enzymes and thus can be eaten by any lactose intolerant stomach.

The vast majority of the Turkish population is actually an admixture of Greek and Middle Eastern populations. The only thing Turkic about the Turks is their language.

buzuxi02 · Nov 16, 2015

Lol, I know. Most are just armenians and greeks that converted to Islam.
I have a friend that went on a vacation toTurkey. She stayed at some bed and breakfast place outside the city. The property was in the Turkish guys family passed down forever. When she told him she was greek, the owner wanted to show her something from his great great great grandfather. Rolls up some old rug to show an old mosaic floor with greek inscriptions.

Shieldmaiden4Christ · Nov 16, 2015

Yeah, basically the conquering elite superimposed their language, culture and religion on the natives of the Anatolian region. A lot of people don't even know that, though, which is why I point that out.

dzheremi · Nov 16, 2015

Of interest to this conversation may be the online Index Anatolicus, a searchable database of Turkified place names according to their original/pre-Turkification languages, maintained by Turkish-Armenian historian Sevan Nisanyan. The Greek entries number 1232. There are also options to search for Armenian, Latin, and Kurdish former place names, as well Turkish itself (though I'm not quite sure what that means; maybe places that were known by a particular name in Turkish before the founding of the Republic? The entire website is in Turkish). Interestingly, the Turkish section (1117 entries) is the second smallest after the Latin (441 entries).

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