Ridgewood NJ, Some Christian groups are attacking Starbucks for the minimal design on this year’s red-and-green holiday cups.
It seems that images of snowflakes, Christmas tree ornaments and other seasonal adornments seen in previous years have all been removed.
While a Starbucks designer told FOX News the company “wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories.”
But some Christians are accusing the company of being scrooges who “hate Jesus.”
This has gone as far as to have a former Arizona pastor Joshua Feuerstein said “Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus,” in a Facebook video post that’s been watched over 12 million times and shared by more than 400,000 people. Feuerstein is urging Christians to tell baristas their name is “Merry Christmas” so that they’ll be “pranked” into writing the message on the cup.
