Halloween - bah humbug

[Skyryder]

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http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/santa.html

Classic example of Christmas humbug from the joyless fraternity. Read about half of this bollocks and thought how glad I'm not related to this sourpuss.

Apart from the bullshit that Santa Clause and St Nick are the devil etc this indavidual clearly misses the point of the Christmas tradition not only in the pagan celebration of Yuletide but also the Christian traditon first estabished by King Wenceslas. The giving of gifts at Christmas is in line with that of the Thee Wise Men and the Feast of Stephan. This was celebrated on December the 26. Wenceslas was noted for his piety and for his welfare to to the poor. Combined with the gifts of the Wise Men and Wenceslas's feeding the poor many believe that this king is the true spirit of of the modern Santa Clause at Christmas. I tend to agree.

Skyryder

[Ixion]

I just like Christmas cos you can start getting pissed at midday and nobody complains

[moko]

My point of view as well Ixion,actually I dont get drunk as a rule but Christmas mto me is whatever you want it to be.Having said that Christians claiming everything for themselves does hack me off big-style,if they hadn`t burnt,maimed and killed people over the years to get their point across then I`d say good luck to them.Personally I find the meanings and roots of things interesting and therefore the Norse Santa connections likewise.As Skyrider say the author of that webpage was a killjoy,more than a little fanatical as well but I found it interesting reading amongst the "you`re all going to burn in hell bits",shit,I knew that was my fate years ago if my Atheism was on the slightest off-chance wrong,didn`t particularly worry me then or now.