The New Yorker:
Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City
The brand’s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism.
Jeez, it's chicken sandwiches and waffle fries, you silly nellie. The writer, whom I will always think of as Nervous Dan, may want to avoid
this interesting fact:
Christians comprise about 70% of the population [of New York City]; 40% of whom are Catholic and 30% Protestant. They attend approximately 2000 churches and 4000 informal places of worship such as community halls and homes, thus a total of some 6000 churches. New York City also boasts the world’s largest cathedral, the Episcopal Church of St John the Divine.
People such as Nervous Dan, and, apparently, the editorial staff of
The New Yorker, are all for diversity, unless that means accepting people who are different from the staff of
The New Yorker. I wonder, does he consider Jewish delis or Hindu curry shops or Muslim bakeries to be "infiltrating" his safe, homogenized bubble? Or, is he merely another tedious sufferer of Christo-phobia?