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Santa and Satan

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

“Amidst the general call to happiness, the bustle of the spirits, and stir of the affections, which prevail at this period, what bosom can remain insensible?” — Washington Irving (1783–1859) on Christmas

Santa… Satan…? Notice, they’re spelled similarly. Weird, a little bit….

The Santa we know came from a mashup of ancient pre-Christian Teutonic and Norse folk figures (Wotan, Odin) with the 4th century Greek bishop, St. Nicholas, a humble giver of gifts to children. That evolved in 19th century Anglo-America, with help from Washington Irving,  Charles Dickens, and Clement Moore, into the jolly fat man in a fur-lined cloak, chortling merrily amid the platters of roast goose and baskets of sugarplums.

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The Santa Paradox

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

In the United States it is commonplace for parents to tell their children that every Christmas a complete stranger with magical powers flies from the North Pole to deliver gifts made by elves. In order to perpetuate this belief in their young and trusting offspring they will spend large sums of money on gifts that they will pretend were placed under the Christmas tree while they slept. Often they will embellish this fairy tale by leaving out mugs of cocoa, plates full of cookies and even little bowls of carrots to feed this mythical man’s flying reindeer or use an old pair of boots to leave prints in the snow.

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Trump Tells 7-Year-Old Boy That Santa Isn’t Real

Via ZeroHedge

The White House had already easily met its Christmas controversy quota by shuttering the government, pulling out of Syria and browbeating the chairman of the Federal Reserve during the runup to the holiday. But amid all of the outrage and virtue-signaling backlash to his latest string of policy decisions, President Trump apparently committed an unforgivable violation in the eyes of many liberals on Christmas Eve: Telling a child that Santa isn’t real.

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During what has become a White House tradition, President Trump and the First Lady joined NORAD in its tradition of tracking Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. The president even took calls from children who were hoping to speak with Santa directly. In response to a request from a seven-year-old boy named Coleman, Trump asked whether the boy was “still a believer” in Santa “because at seven it’s marginal, right?”

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Facebook censors photo that ‘may show violent or graphic content.’ Photo depicts Santa Claus kneeling to honor baby Jesus in manger.

Via True Pundit

Facebook has censored a photo of Santa Claus kneeling in baby Jesus’s manger because, according to the guidelines, the photo may “show violent or graphic content.”

According to LifeSiteNews, the photo was previously covered up by a banner that read “may show violent or graphic content.”

Underneath the ominous warning, users had the option to “decide if [they] want to see it.”

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