That was no plastic raccoon !!
That was Ringo !
Here’s a lovely little holiday tune:
Let’s put Christ Back in Christmas - Pat Godwin
Frosty the Snowman
Was Jesus Christ’s best friend
he stood there melting by the cross
until the very end.
http://mfile.akamai.com/5028/wma/bobntom.download.akamai.com/5028/clips/christ_in_xmas.asx
Our (Methodist) church has a children’s Nativity play every Christmas Eve. A couple of years after I joined the church, we got a new pastor, and he introduced a new element to the play, one that has become a tradition since it’s been done for the past eight years. Just as the shepherds and angels and animals of the stable all gather around Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus to sing “Joy to the World,” Santa enters the sanctuary (to the gasps of the littlest ones, who are usually playing sheep or cattle). He lays a gift by the manger and kneels for a moment), completely interrupting the flow of the play and making more than a few adults in the congregation cringe.
That pastor, a good and well-meaning man who also invariably based his sermon on some glurge he’d gotten in his email the previous week, has been retired for some five years now, but Santa still turns up. It’s almost enough to make me want to volunteer to coordinate the play… Wait, on the other hand, never mind.
As for decorations depicting Santa on the cross, that’s all wrong. It should be the Easter Bunny instead.
Snopes page on the crucified Santa legend.
None of it seems odd to me. What’s the problem with having one fictional creation of literature kneeling over another fictional creation of literature.
Ya’ see, for those of us who do not believe in the existence of religious higher entities of any kind, “Santa” is just as meaningless as “Jesus” frankly.
But then I’ve never really understood Christmas anyway. Not that I don’t participate - any excuse to give a gift to someone I care about.