1. He wears a red suit with a hat that has one single horn !
he is Grossly Obese and can still come down HOT chimneys at night
Goes around shouting Ho HO HO ! ( a black american slang word used for prostitutes )
Santa Claus’s alleged secret kinship with Satan. Santa is Saint Nicholas, the third-century Greek Orthodox bishop whose legendary acts of Christian charity gave rise to the myth of a kindly, bearded patriarch who comes, bearing gifts, in December. But Christian soldiers worry that Santa is a tool of the vast Satanic conspiracy. To be sure, the similarity of their names, identical but for one transposed letter, is provocative. There is evidence that Satan and Santa were separated at birth. Santa wears red; the Devil is red. Santa is known, alternatively, as Saint Nick; one of the Devil’s jocular pseudonyms, in England, is Old Nick. Both are associated with the element of fire (by way of the chimney in Santa’s case; a little closer to home in Satan’s); both live in the far antipodes. Santa, like Satan, can be seen as a sacrilegious parody of Christ. Christians celebrate the Last Supper by eating the communion wafer; Santa parodies that holy sacrament by demanding a cookie. Kids await Santa’s arrival, on Christmas eve, thrilled at the thought that “Santa Claus is coming to town”; evangelicals expect the Second Coming any second.
We shouldn’t celebrate Christmas because the Early Church didn’t celebrate it
The first followers of Jesus didn’t ‘celebrate’ Christmas or Easter as such. But they certainly ‘remembered’ them. The birth of Jesus is recorded in two of the four gospels (the four books at the start of the New Testament in the Christian Bible which tell the story of the life of Jesus); and Jesus’s death and resurrection is in all four gospels. Jesus himself (and then later Paul who wrote much of the New Testament in the Bible) told us to commemorate and celebrate that.
We know from early records that the early Church formally remembered (celebrated?) the birth of Jesus as early as 125AD – and probably earlier.
The early Christians got the date of December 25th from the date of Easter, when Christians remember the death [and resurrection] of Jesus! You can find out more about the date of Christmas on this page…
John 5:23 states “that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.”
So in celebrating Christmas, I’m honoring God. I want to honour God all year round, but Christmas is a time when we can especially remember the birth of Jesus.
Jeremiah 10 proves that Christmas Trees are Idols
Jeremiah is a book in the Jewish scriptures and the Christian Old Testament. Jeremiah 10:1-5 says:
Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel. This is what the Lord says: Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them. For the practices of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter. Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.
This text is sometimes used, together with the ‘theory’ from Hislop about Yule/Yalda. However, Jeremiah 10 clearly refers to trees which were being cut down and then carved and decorated, turning them into idols used in homes – not actual ‘tree worship’ or the decoration of trees like we have in Christmas Trees today!
Decorating trees first represented the Garden of Eden in ‘Paradise Plays’. How we have trees now, might well have been popularised by Martin Luther and developed from there. Baubles on Christmas Trees started out as apples. Originally they were real apples – sometimes covered in gold. Then when glass decorations started being made, some of the first were glass apples!
And in Hosea 14:8 God even likens Himself to as an ‘ever green tree’ who all our ‘fruit’ comes from. So in this regard, you could even say that having a Christmas Tree can reminds us of God’s provision in our lives!
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: But a broken spirit drieth the bones.