{"id":674,"date":"2007-05-10T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/juxtaposition.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","slug":"juxtaposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/juxtaposition.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Juxtaposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my Monday drive to work, I’m listening to NPR as usual and I hear the following.
\nFirst, is a short news story from the local station<\/a> about how Michelle Incanno from Springboro OH is boycotting Starbucks Coffee. Why? Well, I guess Starbucks has been printing little sayings from customers on their cups and Michelle got one where a customer calls God a “figment of our imagination” and that didn’t sit right with her. (There’s no online story from the NPR affiliate, so here’s the story from the Dayton Daily News<\/a>.)
\nFrom the local news to Morning Edition<\/a> and this story<\/a> about the Pope’s visit to Brazil and his conflict with a Brazilian Catholic movement called Liberation Theology.<\/p>\n

Brazil’s Catholic clergy is actively, at times defiantly, pursuing the struggle for social justice on behalf of the poor: Catholic bishops stage hunger strikes to halt dam projects that they say put profits of big business above the needs of the people. They broker deals with banks to build housing for the homeless. And priests take to the airwaves to denounce the growing footprint of agro-business that has cut down the rainforest to make way for cattle and much-in-demand soy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The contrast of this was striking to me.
\nIn America, a woman ‘sacrifices’ a $3 cup of coffee in the name of God.
\nIn Brazil, Catholic clergy face down governments for the sake of the poor, in the name of God.
\nNow, in some respects I applaud Michelle’s convictions and her taking a stand against a business that she sees as opposed to God. I also don’t buy Starbucks’ response that the views aren’t their own. Sure, a customer submitted it, but Starbucks chose to print it. It’s not some rogue employee speaking out of turn, it’s a corporate decision with deliberation and forethought. That conscious choice makes it their words too in my book.
\nI can also see questioning whether it’s the church’s role to oppose dams and save the rainforest. I’d say, you bet it is, if those actions trample on the voiceless and discarded. Comforting and serving them after the damage is done is less valuable then standing up for them to prevent it.
\nRegardless, the juxtaposition of the two stories together was interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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