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Santa Claus is the Antichrist

by MonkeyPundit | November 19, 2008 at 02:01 pm

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Christian theology suggests that the Antichrist will be able to work counterfeit miracles, will oppose Christ, and substitute himself in Christ's place. The Antichrist is here, and his name is Santa Claus.

Yes, you read that correctly. I believe that Santa Claus is the Antichrist. Santa Claus already has a well-established following that opposes and acts as a substitute for Christianity. In fact, Santa Claus overshadows Jesus in every possible way, and on his birthday no less.

Santa Claus is the center of the media's attention in the Christmas season because, by comparison, programming about Jesus isn't captivating. Yes, the nativity is sweet, but the plot is rather rigid and the theme doesn't inspire spinoffs. Likewise, the nativity is devoid of opportunities for catchy jingles, special effects, pop culture relevance, or tie-in marketing.

Santa Claus inspires people to celebrate the birthday of a man who eschewed materialism by splurging on gifts. But because Santa loves giving people large, expensive gifts that look great under a Christmas Tree and are exciting to unwrap, everybody else should too. Not that they can't buy large, expensive gifts that are too big to fit under the Christmas Tree, of course.

It's easy to see how Santa Claus has been positioned as the new God. He's a larger-than-life, jolly man with superhuman powers who lives in a magical realm. With the help of his reindeer and elfin friends, he makes and distributes toys to all the well-behaved children in the world, and he punishes badly-behaved ones only with a lump of coal.

By contrast, while Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of Man, his strongest public image is as a man being tortured to death.

Santa Claus is the perfect Antichrist, really. It's almost universally unpopular to hate him and he encourages people to behave in ways that make them forget or ignore Jesus' teachings.

Ironically, Santa Claus wouldn't have such a strong opposing influence if Christ's most dedicated followers would stop decrying, harassing, and boycotting stores that replace the word "Christmas" with secularly accessibly terms like "holiday".

But it's probably too late now anyway. The War on Christmas has been won, and the victor is Santa Claus and his corporate minions.

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Liam! (not verified)

at 14:07 on November 19th, 2008

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Rhonda J Mangus

at 19:52 on November 19th, 2008

Very interesting Opinion. Thanks for sharing!

talentedchimp

at 20:14 on November 19th, 2008

Excellent!

Paschen

at 22:32 on November 19th, 2008

The Christian move Christ Birth date from the Spring to the time of the equinox because the Nordic celebrate the return of light with the swastica and the decorated trees that where holy for them, why the first Christian armies that forced Christianity onto Europe cut trees in mass to break the spirit of the Nordic and Germanic Tribes. The Anti Christ is with in Christianity that has spread by force and blood shed not by it theology. If the Christian would follow Christ Teaching we would not have had so much blood shed around the World for the past 2000 Years.

joe mama (not verified)

at 09:17 on December 25th, 2008

Finally, someone understands the "reason for the season"...

Finley (not verified)

at 10:35 on December 6th, 2008

I could not have put it better myself! I have never lied to my kids and they know I believe that santa is the antichrist, matter of fact my daughter came to me and told me that her teacher said santa is real and argued with me about the subject and I now home school. In my family Jesus is KING!

Asif Javed (not verified)

at 05:38 on December 8th, 2008

I am very happy to know about your teachings because it is true and excilent.It is antichrist because people celeberate its day wormly.

But tell me how we can stop this trand.

Kasey (not verified)

at 18:11 on December 17th, 2008

My opinion on this subject is that Santa Claus is not the Antichrist. Saint Nicholas was once a real person. You know that Santa means Saint and Claus stands for Nicholas and that is how he became Santa Claus In his time period he was very fond of children and very benevolent and because of his acts he became known as a Saint by the ones who knew him. After a time people have woven his story into a legend and a myth. Everyone knows Santa can not really do "magical" things as you say he can. And in no way has believing in Santa Claus when I was a younger kid and keeping the tradition going on effected my belief in Jesus and God. I think believing that Santa Claus is the Antichrist is quite a foolish accusation.