This is just silly… Seriously… That’s the only word for it…

Michelle Incanno was an admitted Starbucks addict.

She’d buy the company’s coffee beans every week. Whenever she’d get the chance to drop by a Starbucks, she would, placing the same order every time: a large, house brewed coffee with nonfat milk and two Splenda. When the Seattle-based chain opened a drive-through near her Springboro home, she was in java heaven.

That was until she got an unexpected jolt last week from her coffee cup.

Printed on the cup was: “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.”

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“As someone who loves God, I was so offended by that. I don’t think there needs to be religious dialogue on it. I just want coffee,” said Incanno, a married mother of three who is Catholic.

She wasn’t satisfied with a company disclaimer saying the quote is the author’s opinion, not necessarily that of Starbucks.

It’s a coffee cup.

Written by an obvious atheist.

Starbucks has been doing this for years.

Does she have a right to be offended? I think so. I mean, you have a right to be offended for any cockamamy reason you can come up with. My problem is her running to the media to proudly proclaim that she’s not going to be partaking in Starbucks beverages anymore, as if her boring-ass coffee with skim milk and Splenda once a day is going to change things for them.

The second batch of stupidity is that Starbucks has run cups that are pro-God. Someone who buys a hot drink every day (or at least a Starbucks addict, anyway) would have seen it. I remembered seeing one, but a reader to the linked article even remembered the number… Cup #250…

In reality hell is not such an intention of God as it is an invention of man. God is love and people are precious. Authentic truth is not so much taught or learned as it is remembered. Somewhere in your pre-incarnate consciousness you were loved absolutely because you were. Loved absolutely, and in reality, you still are! Remember who you are!

– Bishop Carlton Pearson
Author, speaker, spiritual leader and recording artist.

Is this good enough to get her back?

I mean, if one cup could make her leave, could one cup make her come back?

via Consumerist

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