Well, well, well, what have we here? As thousands of Atlanta’s airport passengers found themselves stranded due to a power outage in what was for many, an unfamiliar airport, who should come out to feed them for free, making their hellish travel ordeal a bit less hellish?
Sure enough, it was Chick-fil-A, the delicious chicken fast-food chain that was otherwise branded “hate chicken” by rabid leftists, during a 2012 flap over gay marriage and the company owner’s unwillingness to support it.
Late Sunday night, while Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport worked to restore power during a massive outage that crippled air travel at the nation’s busiest airport, officials handed out Chick-fil-A and waters to stranded passengers.
“Lights on and delivering food and water to our passengers,” the airport said on Twitter, thanking Chick-fil-A Chairman and CEO Dan Cathy for opening on a Sunday.
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Seems the restaurant chain, whose outlets are ordinarily closed on Sunday due to the Baptist owner’s wish to honor the Sabbath, went ahead and opened up in order to feed the hungry multitudes. As per Judeo-Christian practice describe in the Bible, actually. Jesus said that if your cow falls into a well on the Sabbath, you get the beast out, regardless of the day of week. (Someone had been criticizing him for performing miracles on the Sabbath.) For Chick-fil-A, the airport emergency at Atlanta fits right into that category.
Some “hate chicken.”
It goes to show that the company, influenced by its owner’s biblical values, brings good stuff, not hate, to the needy.
Chick-fil-a owner Dan Cathy says as much:
“We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but we thank the Lord we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles,” he said in an interview with the Baptist Press.
Chick-fil-A has done these kinds of charitable giveaways in the past too, I recall for hurricane refugees. This isn’t the first time. Their chicken is delicious, their service is top-notch, their restaurants are wonderfully clean and small wonder they surpass all other fast food establishments in profitability per store due to their popular business model, even as they are open only six days a week. Yet the left has been quick to demonize it, boycott it, zone it out of business, and subject it to selective enforcement for code violations.
Now the airline travelers experiencing Atlanta for the first time will recall not just the airport stranding alone, but the kindness shown by Chick-fil-A, the restaurant chain that lives by its values and cares about others, asking nothing in return. These are the values that are so abhorred by the left.
Hate Chicken should have had Big Signs saying:
“Free Chicken for Conservatives”
“Free Innards for Liberals”
Only a liberal would want to have such a sign so they
Would have something to “cluck” about.
Filet, a boneless cut. Fillet, a frame within a frame.
Frames are bones. Bones are rolled. Bones are made. Good bones make good stocks. Bad bones stalk horses before carts, exhorting ’em to push. Eventually, putsch.
Lather ’em up hard, barn ’em away wet, repeat.
Astonishing ( well maybe not) that the airport management and the government of Atlanta did not stop and think that thousands of people were stranded at the airport with no food ( or heat). Fortunate that Chick Fil-A understood the situation and responded but there was no reason the Mayor of Atlanta could not have asked other restaurants to help out.
Just another corrupt liberal city whose politicians only can think of votes and $.
Kudos to CFA, great people!
Too bad the LORD is going to smite Chick Fil-A for working on Sunday. Just kidding. There aren’t many Chick Fil-A’s around here, which is too bad, since I’d probably love “hate chicken”.
Vote with your money folks.
Do you hold your values or LIVE your values?
Was working last night on my weekend gig, got to talking about community with Nate. Nate is a 60-ish grey-haired Mormon, currently raising a fourteen-year-old he took from a drug-addled relative couple to teach civilized values before the drugs-jail-death cycle got him. We talked about the little things you can do to help build community: shoveling sidewalks and mowing lawns for the elderly, taking food to the sick and trips to the doctor for the ill, and so on. He mentioned a neighbor he had years back, an Episcopalian lady that he took to church on Sunday (before his own duties began) so she could be sure to attend, no other family being local for her. At one point he was scheduled to leave town for a year and a half on some duty or other; he went to the lady’s priest, told him he was leaving town for a while and asked him to arrange alternate transportation to church for her. The priest asked, “Isn’t there someone else from your congregation (the Mormon ward!) who could do it?”
This incensed Nate so much he said, “Yes, there is. I will make sure my church gets your lady there every Sunday and puts her in the front row, so every Sunday you can look her in the eyes and remember HOW YOU DID NOTHING TO HELP HER, YOUR OWN CHURCH MEMBER”. Nate was irate, and he did just that: he said he got with the Mormon equivalent of the caring committee and transportation committee, and that every Sunday while he was gone they delivered her to the front pew and made sure she was comfortably settled before they left. When she died, Nate spoke at her funeral, stayed to the end and left, never to return.
Do you hold your values, or do you live them?
A most excellent sermon. Better than I have ever heard from any preacher or priest.
That your buddy Nate is a Mormon is not pertinent to the moral of the story. Gold nuggets can be found in the alluvial gravel beds of almost all streams that flow out of a mountain range. One ounce of gold can be found in every 2,000 pounds of gravel, if you are lucky.
Saturday is the Sabbath, the day of rest. Sunday is The Lord’s Day of His Resurection.
Jesus is our Sabbath rest. We can worship any day, the law is no longer. Sheesh, legalists!
May I respectfully suggest that you try reading the Bible in what would be a new way for most people? Read the recorded words of Jesus without resorting to any previous training or conditioning. Then ask yourself what you think those words mean, not not what your preacher said those words mean.
When Jesus said that he had not come to take away even a jot or tittle of the law, what do you think he meant by that? When he said that he had come to live the law fully, what did he mean by that? Why did he indicate that the Pharisees violated the law by meeting every detailed instruction of the law (the letter of the law) while ignoring the intent of the law (the spirit of the law)?
Consider that the early Catholic church changed the sabbath observation to Sunday. At that time, the most widely worshiped god in Rome was Sol Invictus, the Sun god. Sunday was the weekly holy day for the worshipers of Sol Invictus. Is it morally acceptable for a church to sacrifice their understanding of natural law to gain more bodies in the pews on whatever passes for the sabbath?
I am not the guy who down-voted you. That was one of those pesky legalists, without a doubt.
Pretty finicky for a dude that can’t even spell “resurrection”.
May I respectfully suggest that you consider the attitude on spelling that is attributed to Samuel Johnson? Mr. Johnson reported stated that an intelligent man should be able to spell a word several ways in the same paragraph.
I firmly believe that correctly expressing an idea or concept is far preferable to using correct grammar or correct spelling, if a person must choose one or the other.
Suggest away, but you won’t ruin any of my fun.
I have trouble taking seriously those who can’t bother to properly express themselves, but that’s just me. I’m a jerk, I know.
Lotta people also think me a jerk. I don’t cry myself to sleep over it, but it still bothers me a little. I am trying to be less offensive in how I critique the ideas of others, and more selective in choosing those to whom I speak freely.
Good for you. Really. A higher ideal, for sure.
I still get a buzz from calling folks out. I used to razz EL Coyote about not knowing the difference between your and you’re, but then he just acknowledged it, and the sparkle was gone.
Perhaps it was not a spelling error, but a typographical error.
When ever I support a fast food establishment it is generally Chick Fila because of the corporate stand on values . My attitude goes the same to non support to the NFL that has allowed the general orginization to become an insult to many Americans . The Billonaire Owners and the Millionaire Players cannot show a shred of common decency , respect and patriotism for a few minutes . Please do not give me that bull shit about young black males being targeted by police . There are bad cops and they cause tragic situations but these are few and most of these players know nothing about what really took place . Go on play your game , I found better things to do with my time and money !
Excellent ? filet