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Chick-fil-A and the Christian Infiltration
the Weekly Standard ^ | 20 Apr, 2018 | Barton Swaim

Posted on 04/22/2018 7:42:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Even the headline of the short essay in the New Yorker was meant to offend, and it did: “Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City.” The piece, by Dan Piepenbring, has been read, attacked, defended, and ridiculed by far more people than ordinarily read the New Yorker. If the editors’ goal was to attract online readers, they succeeded.

Piepenbring makes no effort to veil his contempt for the famously clean and friendly fast-food restaurant, of which there are now four in Manhattan. He visited the grand opening of the largest and most recently built one, on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. “The air smelled fried,” he writes. And yet Piepenbring leaves us to wonder many things, including why someone who doesn’t like a restaurant should be annoyed that it closes on Sundays.......

The restaurant’s expansion in Manhattan, he writes, “raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community.”

Of course, it raises no such questions. New Yorkers are very lefty in their politics; Chick-fil-A’s owners are Southerners with strong Christian convictions. But New Yorkers are mostly grownups, too, and they’re capable of coping with this slight dissonance.

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: chickfila; christianity; danpiepenbring; leftism; manhattan; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; thenewyorker
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t like it, don’t buy food there. Certainly this writer sets the tone for everyone else in NY.


21 posted on 04/22/2018 8:26:47 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: JudyinCanada

I’ve been in Chick Fil A once. (Not a chicken fan). All I saw was a nice, clean sort of fast food place. Kind of reminded me of In & Out. If I didn’t already know it was owned by Christians I wouldn’t have known. Same with Forever 21 and Hobby Lobby.
These people are just hateful but jobs.


22 posted on 04/22/2018 8:29:07 AM PDT by sheana
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To: JudyinCanada

But jobs = nut jobs. Lol
Works either way.


23 posted on 04/22/2018 8:30:43 AM PDT by sheana
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To: MtnClimber

If religion bothers them so much then what do they think of all the “halal” signs that have taken over the food carts on the streets?


24 posted on 04/22/2018 8:33:07 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: MtnClimber

America was better when it was a Christian country.


25 posted on 04/22/2018 8:36:17 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: MtnClimber

These people just hate. If it wasn’t Chik-fil-a it’d be something else. Nasty rotten people.


26 posted on 04/22/2018 8:39:47 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Mamzelle

Subway sandwiches that include the composite substance of dubious origin that they call oven-roasted chicken cost around $7.


27 posted on 04/22/2018 8:40:56 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: MtnClimber
" . . . to what extent a corporation can join a community.”

If he doesn't like corporations he can write essays mocking Ford, General Mills, Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, and Apple. Oh, I forgot, they are lefty, so they get a pass.
28 posted on 04/22/2018 8:47:12 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: sheana

Since the closest Chick-Fil-A restaurant is about 4 or 5 miles from me, I also have only been to a Chick-Fil-A once. There was nothing obviously “Christian” about it, nor was it creepy. The staff was courteous, the place was clean, but I didn’t think the food was as good I had heard it was. The chicken sandwich was a little better than the McDonald’s version, but the waffle fries were mediocre - lukewarm and not crispy at all.


29 posted on 04/22/2018 8:53:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Architect of Avalon

Some of Subway’s varieties of ham are actually turkey, too.


30 posted on 04/22/2018 8:57:42 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: MtnClimber

It would have been unthinkable for the author to write a column describing the presence of any other faith but Christianity as an “infiltration.” The fact that this column was even allowed tells us that - on the left - it is now acceptable to publicly mock Christians as Christians, and even to exert pressure to force them out of polite society.


31 posted on 04/22/2018 8:59:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: miss marmelstein

“I’m a New Yorker who just spent a happy week in Alabama. Call me nuts but all the churches and religious folk I ran into gave me huge comfort and a feeling of warmth.”

Ain’t that the truth!!! I love going down south. Genuine people there


32 posted on 04/22/2018 9:06:57 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: MtnClimber

I read the original in the New Yorker with smile slightly askance. I am still considering the possibility that it may have been a conscious self-parody. If the NYer is not as irony-deficient as I suspect they are.


33 posted on 04/22/2018 9:06:59 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Whole lotta chicken goin' on.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yeh LIEberals what’s so creepy about Chick fil A? They are restaurants that serve delicious chicken sandwiches, treat customers with courtesy and good service, provide jobs, contribute taxes and add quality value to their locations. That they are Christian Management, stand for certain values and close on Sundays riles up the LIEberals? CFA denies service to nobody— all are welcome so long as they are civil and not disruptive like attention seeking leftist misfits. LIEberals hate God - that’s the main issue with them.


34 posted on 04/22/2018 9:09:00 AM PDT by tflabo (Varmints)
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To: jughandle

How come they aren’t bothered by it? They might be. However they also know that the Christian isn’t likely, if you insult them or say anything about them, to pull out a machete, scream “Allahu Akbar”, and cut off your head.


35 posted on 04/22/2018 9:10:34 AM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: MtnClimber

there is nothing, but nothing more parochial than a leftist.


36 posted on 04/22/2018 9:18:30 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: hoagy62

Maybe Christians should . . . Oh never mind. All *OUR* Churches would get raided and burned to the ground a la Waco - on Sunday no less!


37 posted on 04/22/2018 9:22:06 AM PDT by oldfart
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To: sheana

Lol - honestly, you’d think they were demanding that their customers sit through sermons and recite scripture before they can order.


38 posted on 04/22/2018 9:31:32 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: joethedrummer; miss marmelstein
“I’m a New Yorker who just spent a happy week in Alabama. Call me nuts but all the churches and religious folk I ran into gave me huge comfort and a feeling of warmth.” Ain’t that the truth!!! I love going down south. Genuine people there

Ditto that. Got the same feeling when I visited North Carolina. Even the cashier at the gas station when I went to gas up the rental car greeted me as if I was a friend she hadn't seen in the past year.

Oh, yeah, and the Spicy Deluxe sandwich at Chick-Fil-A is awesome, too :-d)

39 posted on 04/22/2018 9:40:01 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: MtnClimber

The attacks on morality and ethics by the left in this country are beginning to be more than disturbing. College educated women are beginning to lean to the left because they have been filled with jackass liberalism throughout their college careers.


40 posted on 04/22/2018 9:42:28 AM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails overall.)
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