Every year on November 1, Starbucks releases highly anticipated holiday cups. Usually they are delicately decorated with snowflakes, polar bears, ornaments, and anything else imaginable having to do with commercial Christmas. Many consumers were shocked to see anything but that this holiday season.

This year, Starbucks took a minimalist approach when designing the beloved cups, and chose a red, ombré design. At first, no one took notice of the change in the cups, but soon, controversy struck.

Joshua Feuerstein, a pastor based in Arizona, recently posted a widely viewed video, named “Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus.” The video, which accused the coffee shop of hating both Christmas and Christians due to the removal of winter decorations, quickly accumulated views and took over Twitter, with many people naming the situation a “war on Christmas.”

In contrast with the anger fueled by the newly designed cups and viral video, many customers of Starbucks are completely indifferent about the decoration, or lack thereof, on their cups of coffee.

Likewise, some students at Faith don’t think removing wintry designs from the cups is necessarily against Christianity, but that the lack of designs is just boring. Makayla Callier, freshman, does not “think that Starbucks isn’t against Christmas or Christians, [she] just [thinks] that their whole design is lame because [she misses] the Christmassy feeling of their design.”

A Twitter user, @arrpeebee, commented on the subject, saying, “If you need a coffee chain to be your ambassador of Christ you need to re-examine your relationship [with] God.” Just like this user, many Christians have taken the side of Starbucks, saying that removing the designs does not remove Christmas from their Starbucks experience.