# So, why is Paganism a problem for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-is-paganism-a-problem-for-you/38015 "2000-10-23T20:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-is-paganism-a-problem-for-you/38015/41 "2000-10-26T14:35:59Z")
Interesting, thanks Eutychus. I could have sworn that the modern image was created by the Coca Cola company but I bow before the grand people at Snopes. Anyone else hear about the original Santa type of figure in the Rennaissance or before being what Christians took over as the image of the modern devil? I still can’t find a link to that and am now wondering how much if any of a hoax that may be too. HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![writefetus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9de053/32.png) [@writefetus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/writefetus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-is-paganism-a-problem-for-you/38015/42 "2000-10-26T14:56:13Z")
from:www.philaprintshop.com “Amongst the most famous of the illustrators who worked for the magazine (Harpers) was Thomas Nast, ‘father of American political cartooning.’ During the second half of the nineteenth century, Nast became the most significant illustrator of American political and social issues. His pointed cartoons exerted a great impact on public opinion. More than a mere cartoonist, Nast was an innovator of images, popularizing or instituting many now familiar subjects such as the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, John Bull, Uncle Sam, and Columbia. Perhaps his most lasting creation was the image of Santa Claus,(in 1863) that he modeled from Clement Moore’s St. Nicholas in his ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and which serves as our present day jolly elf.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-is-paganism-a-problem-for-you/38015.md?page=2)