Sometimes I am embarrased to call myself a Christian
Posted by Pastor Paul at 5/16/2008 8:01 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Well, here they go again, or should I say here WE go again. Once again a Christian group, this time in San Diego CA, is outraged because of the new Starbucks Coffee logo and is calling for a national boycot of the company.
Now I don't know a lot about the Starbucks logo so I did a little research and found out that it is based on the ancient mariners tale of the sirens, which were mythical two-tailed mermaids that sang to entice sailors to come close to the rocks where their ships would be wrecked, I remembered that story from school actually and thought it was a pretty clever marketing tool, you know that Starbucks was saying their coffee was enticing and seductive just like that "siren song" of myth.
So I went online and found the pic myself so I could see what all the fuss was about, and here it is. And here is what the church spokesman said about this "pornographic" image...
The Resistance (name of the church I guess) says the new image "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute," Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. "Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks."
Are you kidding me? Of all the things in the world that the church sits by and says nothing about, or does nothing about, is this REALLY the battle that we will choose to stand up and be outraged about?
Why is it that Christian groups insist on getting this kind of press? I mean is this the battle that we want our name attached to?
This can't be real, this must be the work of a anti church group trying to make us look bad... right? Tell me this isn't a legitimate church saying something so ridiculous, but no, it's real, and once again we are telling the world around us that the church is out of touch with anything resembling common sense and is some right wing extremist group that is to be feared.
Don't get me wrong, I know that we are supposed to be peculiar, that we are supposed to go against the flow, but this is psycho. Once again the church makes itself an island of insanity instead of the continent of voice of reason and understanding that we are called to be.
I think if Jesus were sitting here he would shake his head and wish that we, the church that claims to be His people, would reach out and love those around us until they are overwhelmed by our steadfastness and caring. I think that He wishes that we could reach out to a hurting world like that woman at the well he met with so long ago and find a way to break through the mistrust and fear that the world has for us and live up to the words that he said in Mark 12:32-33
"You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
I think psycho was good word use here.
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I cringe when I see christians on the issue of Pres. candidate Obama in the US. Are they serious...is this how we win souls...by calling someone a 'muslim'...as if muslim is a dirty word....in The US! I think the church is loosing more ground expressing racist views and I there is work to be done and sermons to be preached on hate....Obama has not killed any unborn child, he Roe v Wade has been legistlation for years! We however, are loosing souls everyday with this foolishness and I think that is a greater travesty...save the souls already here...I am a woman who had a child out of wedlock in the US....I had been tought on the choices...I chose life, it cost me a lot of freedoms, but I chose it....I did not think about Roe v Wade...I did what mama taught me.
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