Could it be that Ingles, once a fine Southern Company, is now driven by envy and greed? What other reason can there be for “selling out” to Starbucks? That company is truly an “American” success story, but without American values. Howard Schultz, long time President, CEO and Chairman of Starbucks personally and corporately supports liberal, progressive social and political beliefs that belie any understanding of our traditional American culture, and promote egalitarian and anti-religious bigotry. Founded in the most liberal and agnostic, make that Godless, city and state in America, Seattle, Washington, Schultz and Starbucks promote left leaning and socially destructive corporate policies such as supporting “Gay Marriage” and “Diversity Training” while ignoring the negative effects of sexual perversion and spiritual ignorance on the commonweal, and while tolerating savage attacks on the very heart of those values which made us the best of all humanity in our treatment of each other and in the influence and guidance we offer the world.
It is particularly distressing to see our neighbors, especially those we join together with in Church on Sunday, buying coffee and other goods from Starbucks, whose immense profitability is churned into Political and Social Movements which attack the sanctity of Family Values, Lawful Immigration and even the righteous content of many Christian Preacher’s Sunday Sermons.
Maybe it is time for American Christians to Make Better Choices, not only to consider WWJD, but to be a CMBC, a Christian Making Better Choices. I no longer shop at Kroger; soon I will be leaving my money elsewhere than at Ingles. For me, both these grocery chains exemplify that which is morally wrong in America, the attempt to pander to the weakness of our culture, to the loving and forgiving nature of our people. We do not wish to condemn, to judge others; we strive to leave them to their own devices, as we hope also to be left alone. But now, in supporting Starbucks, in buying that $2.50 coffee, one dollar of which is net profit, we speed the growth of an amoral, perverse and even global culture seeking to destroy national borders, encourage deviant relationships, incite generational discourse, promote global governance and its hegemony over National Governments, such as the USA. Ingles has chosen to join the race to building a New Babel, to the one planet, one nation tyranny of the new Nimrod, of the prophesied and awakened Anti-Christ.
Even today, we see in our small community the results of this trend toward a “New Modern America,” filled with stores so large and powerful that no small business, no mom ‘n pop retailer, no small grocery store, no lunch counter or burger joint, no coffee shop, no individual entrepreneur can exist without crushing financial and marketing pressure from national chains, banks, restaurants, and yes, from Kroger, Ingles and Starbucks. When Ingle’s put $11.00 lb. Boer’s Head Ham in their Deli, and Kroger stuck a green sty, a Starbucks, in our eye as we entered the store, no one noticed Blue Star and Piggy Wiggy saying goodbye.
Where do you spend your money? Whose beliefs do you support? Think about it, pray on it, become a CMBC, a Christian Making Better Choices, and put your money where your heart is and where soul should be! I am not calling on you to boycott, to shun, to criticize, but rather to consider how to use the blessings of God in a better, more positive way, seeking always to support institutions, stores and people, who proclaim Gospel truths and support moral, ethical and Righteous choices.