The Left Needs To Chill Out About Christianity
Posted at 5:30 pm on April 13, 2018 by Brandon Morse
There are things the left really hates, but it seems to me that they hate Christianity more than anything.
This has been demonstrated repeatedly throughout time. Be it booing God at the DNC, or their irrational hatred of politicians that openly show their faith.
Case in point, there’s something about Mike Pence that just drives the left insane, and it mostly has to do with his adherence to the Christian faith. Honestly, makes me wonder if Trump is the most hated man in America. The left lies consistently about his positions as it pertains to his faith. His own daughter can’t even write a kid’s book without sending the left into hate spasms.
Even beloved celebrities aren’t immune from the anti-Christian hate of the left. Just check out what happened to Guardians of the Galaxy/Jurassic World actor Chris Pratt when he asked people to pray with him for Kevin Smith.
But in terms of ludicrous reactions, the Christian based chicken sandwich chain “Chick-fil-A” gets an inordinate amount of hate. Its chief officers are openly Christian resulting in them expressing their support for *shocker* traditional marriage when asked. This caused the mainstream media, activist groups, and a chunk of the LGBT community to go somewhat psychotic, and hold protests in front of their local Chick-fil-A. What resulted was…more business for Chick-fil-A than ever before.
Much like the NRA, Chick-fil-A seems to thrive when pressure is put upon it for its values. In fact, it’s these values combined with the quality of their food that is currently putting the chicken sandwich chain on a light-speed course to 3rd in the fast food hierarchy.
It’s expanding by leaps and bounds, and that success has Dan Piepenbring at the New Yorker going into a rant laden with indignance at the audacity of Christians to have a business that runs on Christian values.
For Piepenbring, Chick-fil-A opening a store in New York is just unconscionable, and is an “infiltration” of the worst religious kind:
“And yet the brand’s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism,” wrote Piepenbring. “Its headquarters, in Atlanta, is adorned with Bible verses and a statue of Jesus washing a disciple’s feet.”
Somebody stop the madness! The delicious, high-quality madness! I bet the sweet tea is even made from holy water! It’s headquartered in that backwoods Christian hell-(Heaven?)hole city of Atlanta for Pete’s sake!
Piepenbring goes on to talk about how the Chick-fil-A cows — which he considers to be a gross joke about farm animals tossing other farm animals into harm’s way — are out of place in New York, much like Chick-fil-A itself. He figuratively raises a fist in the air at the way Chick-fil-A tries to brand itself as — and try not to be super shocked by this — better than its competition.
“Still, there’s something especially distasteful about Chick-fil-A, which has sought to portray itself as better than other fast food: cleaner, gentler, and more ethical, with its poultry slightly healthier than the mystery meat of burgers,” wrote Piepenbring. “Its politics, its décor, and its commercial-evangelical messaging are inflected with this suburban piety.”
It’s almost like Chick-fil-A is a business trying to outsell its competitors. How horribly capitalist of them.
Piepenbring ends his article by attempting to encourage his fellow New Yorkers to refuse to patronize Chick-fil-A.
“Today, the Cows’ “guerrilla insurgency” is more of a carpet bombing. New Yorkers are under no obligation to repeat what they say. Enough, we can tell them. NO MOR,” finishes Piepenbring, taking one more dig at the cow mascots.
Piepenbring makes the fatal, elitist error of assuming the majority of everyone around him agrees with him. Thankfully for all of America, the vast majority of us aren’t outraged at the site of a Christian created chicken sandwich, and take to the nearest keyboard, thesaurus in hand, and express with an upturned nose how distasteful it is to see a religiously based store be so successful.
There are two facts that Piepenbring and the rest of the left need to face. Chick-fil-A has delicious food and excellent service, and the vast majority of America is Christian. We can get into the weeds about whether or not “self-identifying” and “practicing” are two different numbers, but the end result is the same. America is good with Christian values. Even a good many atheists navigate their world by the Judeo-Christian values the west is based on, whether they acknowledge it or not.
But Piepenbring, like many on the left, suffers from an ignorance and intolerance about the average Christian.
Christians, for the most part, don’t agree with the homosexual lifestyle. However, it doesn’t mean we hate every person who is homosexual, or that we’re all going to try to make their life harder. Without a doubt, there are those out there that will try to turn a homosexual away from their gay or lesbian inclinations, but this pales in comparison to the way the mainstream media, activist groups, and the LGBT community goes after anyone who attempts to stick by his faith.
You can ask a Colorado baker who simply refused to cater a gay wedding and had to defend his choice in the Supreme Court about that. Not to mention the Memories Pizza saga. Neither one of those businesses refused to serve gay customers, just cater ceremonies that went against their religion.
Meanwhile, a gay coffee shop owner can kick out a group of people for being Christian to little backlash.
The ignorance from the left is assuming that all Christians would react the same way the gay coffee shop owner did in his position. The intolerance comes from the fact that for many on the left, there can be no disagreement in tandem with friendship. You’re either on board with it, or you’re a pariah of the highest order.
Christians are not perfect, but who is? In fact, the whole point of Christianity is the acceptance that you’re not perfect and that you need something perfect to save you. There are holier-than-thou kinds of Christians out there without a doubt, but as many on the anti-Christian left including our New Yorker friend here have shown, you don’t need to have faith in God to hold that kind of attitude.
For the most part, we Christians — or at least the majority of the multitude that I’ve met so far — aren’t interested in telling others how to live, and would prefer we be left alone as well. We want to go about our day adhering to our faith, which is likely to never do anyone harm, including those we disagree with.
We want to pray for those in need, eat our chicken sandwiches, and run our businesses in peace. I wish many on the left felt the same way, but we’re constantly assaulted with evangelist mobs of this or that interest group as they “boo” our God during their political conventions.
“You will be made to care,” says the left.
“Eat mor chicken,” says the Christian.
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Chick-fil-A's Creepy Infiltration of New York City: A Former Employee's Response
by petermckenna
The New Yorker ran a piece titled, "Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City." Come again?
"It's a great day at Chick-fil-A! My name is Peter, how may I serve you?"
It's Friday night and I'm on headset in the Chick-fil-A drive thru. Chick-fil-A takes their drive thru very seriously. Even when there are 2 lines of cars wrapping around the restaurant and extending into the street, we're expected to get every customer through in 10 minutes or less. When it's this packed, we have team members head outside, rain or shine, to take drivers' orders on iPads to speed up the process. Multiple transactions are completed simultaneously and seldom are two orders mixed up.
The drive thru is busy right now, but not busy enough for the iPad team, so it's just me taking orders on the headset, ringing them up and preparing any drinks and desserts necessary. Even though the customer can't see me, I still smile when I take her order. It makes my voice more cheerful. In the background I can hear children talking loudly. I look up at the security camera and, just as I suspected, it's a minivan. I know what's coming next: Six large chocolate milkshakes, and I have 30 seconds to make them before her vehicle arrives at the window. With a little help from my fellow team members, we present the woman and the clamoring youngsters with beautifully adorned milkshakes and bid them a good evening. "It's our pleasure," we beam as she rolls up her window and turns behind her to tell the kids to calm down.
The New Yorker ran a hit piece on Chick-fil-A today, claiming that the restaurant chain is creepily infiltrating New York City. The author, Dan Piepenbring, shared a quote from Chick-fil-A’s vice-president of restaurant experience David Farmer, that he strives for a “pit crew efficiency, but where you feel like you just got hugged in the process.” As a former Chick-fil-A employee, I can testify to the truth of this, and it's this service model that makes customers like the woman I served that Friday night keep coming back. At Chick-fil-A, people eat food they like and are treated with startling courtesy in the process. It works. But, not everyone is impressed.
Piepenbring spent his lunch hour the other day at Chick-fil-A's Fulton Street restaurant in Manhattan and it seems he had quite a harrowing experience, describing the speedy service with a smile as "industrial but claustral." An outline of the New York City skyline struck him as a "misguided nod to 9/11." Chick-fil-A's "morbid" advertising forced him to confront "the brutalities of the slaughterhouse." All the while, he seemed to be the only one who could see through the smoke and mirrors. The high-quality food, the A+ service and the environmentally friendly restaurant were all attempts to proselytize unsuspecting customers.
Every now and then, Chick-fil-A makes it back into the headlines as writers try to rehash the same story about CEO Dan Cathy's religious views, specifically in regards to gay marriage. You hardly see a Chick-fil-A grand opening in a major city without some degree of protest these days. New York City mayor Bill de Balsio even called for a Chick-fil-A boycott, which failed miserably. Despite all this opposition and negative press, Chick-fil-A continues to be a roaring success across the United States. QSR Magazine reported that in 2017, Chick-fil-A's sales per store surpassed global fast-food giants McDonald's and KFC despite only being open 6 days a week. Buzzfeed reported that Chick-fil-A is on its way to being America's third-largest fast-food chain. Even at the Fulton Street location in Manhattan, lunchtime lines wrap around the block. Yet, amid all this, liberal opinion writers, journalists and politicians continue to be dumbfounded.
What strikes me about these repeated attempts at brand assassination is that the liberal elite cannot fathom the fact that people like Chick-fil-A. People think the food is delicious, people enjoy being treated well and yes, people like that Chick-fil-A's mission is to glorify God. In fact, they like it so much that each restaurant rakes in more than $4 million a year. Numbers and success don't lie; Chick-fil-A's values are more mainstream than elitists on the left care to admit – even among members of their own political party! Another falsehood the media likes to spread is that Chick-fil-A's only customers are conservative evangelicals, but this falls woefully short of the truth and shows how far the liberal elite have distanced themselves from the American public.
I hope Chick-fil-A's success serves as a lesson to the leftist aristocracy. I hope they learn that most people actually don't think like they do. I hope they learn that Christian values still have a place in American society. If they don't learn these lessons, they'll only become further removed from everyday Americans.
If you read this and wonder if you're out of touch or not, ask yourself this question: "Am I triggered by a chicken sandwich?"
themaven.net
New Yorker Mag: What’s A Christian Traditionalist Business Like Chick-Fil-A Doing Infiltrating Our City?
ALLAHPUNDITPosted at 6:01 pm on April 13, 2018
A little diversion for a lazy Friday afternoon on which absolutely nothing is happening news-wise. The worst part of this isn’t the casual hostility towards Christians or the fact that the author seems so much a caricature of the tedious, ostentatiously right-thinking liberal intellectual that populates the New Yorker readership that the piece plays like parody for the first few paragraphs. (It’s overwritten and his author bio notes that he lives in Brooklyn, deepening the parody suspicions.) Although both of those things are obnoxious in different ways.
The worst part is this sentence, which made me pause to pray for an asteroid to come and let our world start anew: “Its expansion raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community.” What we expect from our fast food.
Cleanse this planet with fire.
New York has taken to Chick-fil-A. One of the Manhattan locations estimates that it sells a sandwich every six seconds, and the company has announced plans to open as many as a dozen more storefronts in the city. And yet the brand’s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism. Its headquarters, in Atlanta, is adorned with Bible verses and a statue of Jesus washing a disciple’s feet. Its stores close on Sundays. Its C.E.O., Dan Cathy, has been accused of bigotry for using the company’s charitable wing to fun anti-gay causes, including groups that oppose same-sex marriage. “We’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation,” he once said, “when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’ ” The company has since reaffirmed its intention to “treat every person with honor, dignity and respect,” but it has quietly continued to donate to anti-L.G.B.T. groups. When the first stand-alone New York location opened, in 2015, a throng of protesters appeared. When a location opened in a Queens mall, in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a boycott. No such controversy greeted the opening of this newest outpost. Chick-fil-A’s success here is a marketing coup. Its expansion raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community.
There are more important things to write about this afternoon so I’ll leave you to the rest — there are multiple paragraphs devoted to the problematic-ness of the Cow mascot, if that whets your appetite — but note how it shifts from a whinge about the owners’ views on gay marriage to a whinge about the damnable faux-authentic corporate uniformity of chain restaurants. Both arguments are stale to the point of tears; it’s embarrassing that the New Yorker would insist on finding room for either when more creative submissions are surely floating across its desk. But a piece that combines both gives me the feel of Frankenstein rising from the operating table and stumbling around the lab. All the component parts are dead and rotting, yet some sick bastard thought to stitch them together and reanimate them for God knows what reason. Now we’ve got Woke Frankenstein roaming the literary countryside, moaning “JESUS BAD, GASTROPUBS GOOD.” Do better, New Yorker.
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