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Jun 02 2008

Fundies hot over coffee shop logo

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By Bob Boldt

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Or how low can they go...

"BBC News reports that a U.S. based Christian group known as The Resistance is calling for a nationwide boycott of the coffee selling giant, Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX).

The group's complaint against the company stems from the commemorative use of a toned-down version of the company's original logo. Starbucks states that the logo, which features a dual-tailed mermaid sporting cleavage, is not inappropriate. The fringe Christian group refers to the logo as a naked woman with legs "spread like a prostitute."

Rain Do Mar (Queen of the Sea).

My mermaid
My Queen of the Sea
Her singing is wonderful
My mermaid is beautiful
In the waves
Where she lives
Ah, have compassion
See my pain
Ah, have mercy
See my pain.

- Brazilian popular song

The fundamentalists may be crazy, but they are not necessarily stupid. Their actions are not so inconsistent with their beliefs. If not consciously, then unconsciously, they recognize one of the manifestations of the Goddess in this seemingly innocuous Starbucks Logo. One of the most deadly enemies of their patriarchal, sexist religion is The Feminine. They are even down on the Roman Catholics for their veneration of Mary, Mother of Jesus.

The mermaid symbol they are so threatened by is actually one of the personifications of Yemana, divine Mother Goddess, goddess of the sea and loving mother of mankind, daughter of Obatala and wife of Aganju.

Like all gods and goddesses she has a benign and a wrathful aspect. The sea goddess can save the drowning soul or, to those who show her disrespect, cast them down into the whirlpool. It is said, "ignorance of the power of the gods is no excuse." These fundamentalist nutcases had better be careful whom they are messing with. This Goddess in particular is slow to forgive those who know not what they do.

Robert Boldt an editor of MWC News, is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Articles by Bob Boldt at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/bob-boldt

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Comments (2)

1. 03-06-2008 10:32

Cruel

In passing, Bob, with regards to the last paragraph .
When the brilliant monk Fr. Bede Griffiths, had what he described as his Advaitic experience, (so very late in his life, it almost killed him).He said, "She is so cruel, and yet so caring", he called the divine feminine Shakti, she brought him into spiritual balance. He saw the 'Black Madonna' as a perfect icon of her.
Yep those fundamentalist are way out of their depth.

Mike

http://mozilla

Registered

mike keenor

2. 05-06-2008 08:10

Contemplative Christianity

Thanks Mike,

For the headsup on Fr. Griffiths. I had not encountered him before. This is interesting because I have just taken a new-found interest in contemplative Christianity. The Universe seems to be responding synchronously - as she usually does.

Peace,

Bob

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