Defeathering the Chick-Fil-A Meme

Time for a de-meme-ing of sorts…

This meme shouldn’t have any traction for a few reasons—mostly logical reasons.

-       There's no evidence that it was mostly Christian supporters that showed up. That's a logical fallacy, called "sweeping generalization". Some may have been Christian, but some does not justify all. There are no statistics suggesting the CFA supporters were even greater than 50% Christian. One cannot take “there were some Christians” and make it, “Christians”, as in all. For many, this was about freedom of speech.

-       Logically, Jesus is ok with the "biblical definition of marriage” and supporting it. One can be pretty sure Jesus doesn’t mind people supporting a man that publically places faith in Him and the Bible He wrote.

-       Contrary to the meme, one will see that many Christians have lined up to help others. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/viral-chick-fil-a-picture-claims-christians-dont-feed-the-poor-but-we-have-proof-to-the-contrary/

-       Operation Christmas Child, World Vision, Operation Blessing, Samaritan’s Purse, Salvation Army, hundreds of city missions across the US, hundreds of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, JAF Ministries, Koinanea House, Mission Aviation Fellowship, New Tribes Mission, thousands of churches with Food Pantries, Habitat for Humanity, Mercy Ships, Christian Aid Ministries, and the list goes on and on and on. These aren’t flash mobs. These are Christian organizations that take a lot of money and manpower to run, year in and year out. If someone thinks that “Christians aren’t doing anything” maybe it’s because they’re not involved in what Christians are doing. Ironically, many food banks and homeless shelters are run by Christians. A more accurate statement might be that one would never see this many LGBT supporters lining up to help any of the above organizations.

-       The nature of the meme suggests two sources: a self-loathing, handwringing Christian, who, (as stated above) probably isn’t involved much with aid organizations of any kind. Or secondly, a liberal who very subtly is trying to slip the hypocrisy accusation into a catchy meme. Either way, self-righteous ignorance is a theme here, and that’s why the meme is busted.