Santa Claus Can Suck A ****

I am sick of Christmas, and especially Santa Claus. Yes, he was a real person. Yes, he was generous to the less fortunate. Perhaps he deserves recognition for that, but not in this way. If Christmas is supposedly a religious holiday, and Santa Claus is a saint, then shouldn't there be an underlying understanding that we should thank God for what we have and the people He has blessed with generosity? Instead, we surround ourselves with pagan symbolism, ignore our parents in favor of toys, and thank some fat, magical white guy. "Oh thank you, rich white man, for all these gluttonous possessions." Ok, ok, I know it's hard to see it that way. The only difficulty you are having right now in visualizing how useful this type of propaganda can be is that you have been trained from birth to accept these persuasions. So the next time you get ready to write "From Santa"on the tag of a new bicycle, think about how many hours you put in at work to buy it, and how blessed you are to have a job... and stop. Write YOUR name in the "From" spot. And when your children finish opening their presents, have a family prayer time in recognition of who really provided the gifts. This would be a much more appropriate celebration that would be closer to worship than the typical Christmas. Although hard to convince people of, the MOST appropriate version of Christmas would be a Christmas where we tear down the pagan symbols (i.e. Christmas trees and reindeer) and give away things to people who are in NEED of things. As people of the line of Abraham (PBUH) we have an obligation to provide people with basic necessities and, based on the luxurious Christmas's possible in America, we have more than enough to do that. God would be praised in that way.