Three Starbucks holiday cups for the 2017 season are displayed. (Credit: AP/Mark Lennihan) We’re just settling into that dark blanket of panicked consumerism and repeat listenings of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” that is the holiday season. Proof positive of this is that familiar outlets have begun wonder aloud, again, if Starbucks is trying to destroy centuries of Christianity via insufficiently festive holiday cups — this time, in connection with a perceived effort to push the dreaded “gay agenda.” You’ll perhaps recall past instances of Starbucks attempting to undermine a two millennia–old religion followed by 2.2 billion people, once through paper coffee cups that used only green, abstract designs, or once through cups that were simply all red.