{"id":128656,"date":"2015-11-09T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/because-snowflakes-and-trees-are-what-christmas-is-really-all-about.html"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:36:54","slug":"because-snowflakes-and-trees-are-what-christmas-is-really-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/because-snowflakes-and-trees-are-what-christmas-is-really-all-about.html","title":{"rendered":"Because snowflakes and trees are what Christmas is REALLY all about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just visited a Starbucks and got a drink in one of their new Horrifyingly and Contemptuously Non-Christmassy Cups. And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>The Oprah Cinnamon Chai Latte is really pretty blah.<\/p>\n<p>But aside from that &#8230; well, egads and gadzooks, to think that Starbuck would <i>dare<\/i> to dis Jesus by not having <i>snowflakes<\/i> (a symbol specifically prophesied by Isaiah as a harbinger of the Messiah, I think) on their holiday season paper goods &#8230; how blasphemous and Scrooge-like can you get?<\/p>\n<p>Ditto for a shopping mall opting for a &quot;glacier&quot; scene by their Santa Claus booth, rather than a sacred <i>Jesus Tree,<\/i> as first set up by the Archangel Gabriel in the Gospel of John to give shade to the infant Christ. The horror!<\/p>\n<p>(Dear Right Wing Noise Machine: When Starbucks actually starts printing&quot;Jesus is a myth &#8211; Hail Satan!&quot; on their cups, you can get back to me with your &quot;War on Christmas&quot; malarkey. Ditto when those shopping malls put up big signs saying &quot;No gift wrap for sale. No presents may be purchased for Christmas here, because we don&#39;t believe in it.&quot; Until then, keep your sense of entitlement in your pants where it belongs.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2015\/11\/09\/fox-host-the-war-on-christmas-is-off-to-an-earl\/206704'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/6Dq6hgNh-j22_HGPd-K4GCmduRhi45nhfQ21zpm2MKGLihYkPxxhLFnV8veeHydUyHy8hZDpSrzQ5u7KydMKWqfttLMYgLkZUmaPle90BEXdjnefjteS1hn--4_aMFvfjiGEWB8M8w8x1Gyw7Nie6jeHGvbvqCj6a7X28iWY_ouSeRbrjQWOQuM=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2015\/11\/09\/fox-host-the-war-on-christmas-is-off-to-an-earl\/206704'>Fox Host: &#8220;The War On Christmas [Is] Off To An Early Start&#8221; On Starbucks&#8217; Coffee Cups<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/N2fHokbMJy7'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just visited a Starbucks and got a drink in one of their new Horrifyingly and Contemptuously Non-Christmassy Cups. And you know what? The Oprah Cinnamon Chai Latte is really pretty blah. But aside from that &#8230; well, egads and gadzooks, to think that Starbuck would dare to dis Jesus by not having snowflakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/because-snowflakes-and-trees-are-what-christmas-is-really-all-about.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because snowflakes and trees are what Christmas is REALLY all about&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,68,378,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays","category-intolerance-persecution","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128732,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/what-would-jesus-brand.html","url_meta":{"origin":128656,"position":0},"title":"What Would Jesus Brand?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Nov-15 5:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Starbucks Paper Cup Kerfuffle is silly not just because the idea that \"white, green, and red without any words or symbols in it clearly doesn't mean Christmas, but if there were snowflakes and sleighs it would be fine, but without them it's a slap in the face to all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cup%2Bof%2BChrist.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cup%2Bof%2BChrist.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cup%2Bof%2BChrist.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48742,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/snowflakes-are-awesomely-cool.html","url_meta":{"origin":128656,"position":1},"title":"Snowflakes are awesomely cool","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Dec-14 9:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I say, non-ironically, that these invoke for me memories of the \"Mighty Microscope\" from the Monstanto \"Adventure into Inner Space\" ride at Disneyland (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adventure_Thru_Inner_Space). 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