# Pastor David, full of the Christmas spirit
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 13, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619 "2016-12-13T16:56:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/1 "2016-12-13T16:56:42Z")
[Or full of something.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pastor-santa-kids-20161213-story.html)
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> At first, the parents try to ignore the screaming man at the mall telling their children they’ve been lied to about Santa Claus.
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> Then it becomes clear he’s not going to stop.
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> “Kids, I want to tell you today that there is no such thing as Santa Claus,” the man tells people waiting in line for Christmas photos at the Westgate Mall in Amarillo, Texas. "Santa Claus does not exist. The Christmas season is about Jesus.
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> “The man you’re going to see today is just a man in a suit dressed up like Santa.”
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> The shouting man is David Grisham, an evangelical street preacher from Anchorage, Alaska, who has shouted his sermons at people across the country for nearly a decade, whether they want to hear them or not.
And just in case he’s not making his point the Pastor has another fun way of getting his message across.
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> In 2010, he videotaped a mock execution of a Santa Claus piñata, complete with sound effects and a coup de grace to the Santa piñata.
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> “What you can’t see,” he told his listeners, "is that we shot Santa in the face.
What a sweet guy he is. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/2 "2016-12-13T17:54:11Z")
Well I guess somebody got coal in his stocking.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/3 "2016-12-13T18:06:53Z")
So there IS a war on Christmas?
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### Author:  [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/4 "2016-12-13T19:58:28Z")
Fancy going all the way from Alaska to seek an audience sympathetic to crazy views in Texas.
Maybe the cold drove him mad.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/5 "2016-12-13T20:33:21Z")
I have to call bullshit on this story; a crazy person _leaving_ Alaska? C’mon.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/6 "2016-12-13T20:41:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I have to call bullshit on this story; a crazy person _leaving_ Alaska? C’mon.
Well, you left there, right?
Badda boom! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/7 "2016-12-13T20:46:54Z")
We should go to his church and tell the truth about Jesus
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/8 "2016-12-13T21:17:13Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> Well, you left there, right?
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> Badda boom! 🙂
I know where you live. KIDDING! no, I’m really not kidding Yes I am; I am SO kidding here. no way am i joking in any fashion
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/9 "2016-12-13T23:42:42Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> We should go to his church and tell the truth about Jesus
Bingo.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/10 "2016-12-14T00:58:20Z")
I don’t understand people like that. My parents were religious, quite devout in fact, and they had no problem with Santa. I even remember the department store picture we had taken with the big guy. My parents were secure enough to figure that we’d learn about Santa, and whether or not he was real, on our own.
And I did, although I didn’t tell my mother. Just before I was five, Christmas Eve of 1959, we were leaving the house to go to church. It’s dark outside already, and Mom forgot something and had to run back into the house for a minute. What she didn’t know is that there was a crack in the curtains, and I could see her put away the milk and Oreos we’d left for Santa. I figured there wasn’t any Easter Bunny or tooth fairy either, but kept my mouth shut so the goodies would keep coming.
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### Author:  [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/11 "2016-12-14T01:14:08Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> We should go to his church and tell the truth about Jesus
Beat me to it! :mad: 🙂
May I add “gods” in general?
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### Author:  [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/12 "2016-12-14T01:22:38Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> We should go to his church and tell the truth about Jesus
Santa Claus is every bit as real as Jesus!
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/13 "2016-12-14T14:25:00Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> We should go to his church and tell the truth about Jesus
Or simply go in and explain about religions in general.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/14 "2016-12-14T14:29:52Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> We should go to his church and tell the truth about Jesus
He’s a street preacher, so I guess you can just go outside and say it.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/15 "2016-12-14T14:36:43Z")
“My message is so important that it doesn’t matter who I hurt or insult as long as you PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!!!”
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/16 "2016-12-14T15:02:37Z")
> [@Baker](#):
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> I figured there wasn’t any Easter Bunny or tooth fairy either, but kept my mouth shut so the goodies would keep coming.
This was where my daughter failed. One morning she came into the kitchen and informed us that she knew the tooth fairy wasn’t real because she gave her “the ultimate test” (her 6-y/o words!) She’d lost a tooth and didn’t tell us, but put it under her pillow anyway.
Busted!!
Her triumph was short-lived when we pointed out that there would be no more tooth fairy money. Ooops!
😃
End hijack.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/17 "2016-12-14T15:04:55Z")
Well, yeah, but that freed her up to sell her teeth for their full market value instead of the Tooth Fairy’s arbitrary pricing scheme. 😉
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/18 "2016-12-14T17:26:37Z")
When I went to NCSU, we had Brickyard preachers. The center part of campus was called “The Brickyard,” and we had our share of crazies who felt they needed to preach to us liberal heathens. It didn’t matter how much we ridiculed them. They just kept coming back.
One guy was named Samuel, a long-hair with no shirt and a dead chicken. He would just shout stuff at random. He once had a “preach-off” with another crazy and it was epic. The other guy would rifle off bible quotes and Samuel would bellow “God made all the animals” and hold up the dead chicken. I wonder if he ever ate it?
I don’t remember this chick’s name, but she dressed like a puritan. She would describe how a certain category of sinners would be going to hell to burn forever in _the lake of fire_. The audience would chant “in the lake of fire” along with her. She’d twist her face and grimace like Linda Blair in _The Exorcist_ and supplied all her own sound effects. She said all rock stars and country music artists would be going to hell because God does not hear their words. He only hears them “weeping and wailing.” She especially railed at women who had abortions and described how they would fall directly to the lowest pit in hell and go “Splat splat splat!”
Brickyard preachers were definitely their own category of crazy.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/19 "2016-12-14T17:48:46Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> When I went to NCSU, we had Brickyard preachers. The center part of campus was called “The Brickyard,” and we had our share of crazies who felt they needed to preach to us liberal heathens. It didn’t matter how much we ridiculed them. They just kept coming back.
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> One guy was named Samuel, a long-hair with no shirt and a dead chicken. He would just shout stuff at random. He once had a “preach-off” with another crazy and it was epic. The other guy would rifle off bible quotes and Samuel would bellow “God made all the animals” and hold up the dead chicken. I wonder if he ever ate it?
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> I don’t remember this chick’s name, but she dressed like a puritan. She would describe how a certain category of sinners would be going to hell to burn forever in _the lake of fire_. The audience would chant “in the lake of fire” along with her. She’d twist her face and grimace like Linda Blair in _The Exorcist_ and supplied all her own sound effects. She said all rock stars and country music artists would be going to hell because God does not hear their words. He only hears them “weeping and wailing.” She especially railed at women who had abortions and described how they would fall directly to the lowest pit in hell and go “Splat splat splat!”
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> Brickyard preachers were definitely their own category of crazy.
We used to get them at ECU as well. I think I remember Samuel, but I don’t recall a dead chicken.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pastor-david-full-of-the-christmas-spirit/774619/20 "2016-12-14T18:00:20Z")
Purdue had Brother Jeb. Lucky for me, he hung out far away from the engineering buildings, so I was spared!
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