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Santa Clause-Coca-Cola & all that stuff!
Terry Wilson
Well, here we are again at that time of the year…A time when our social programming and conditioning swings into action directing us to spend up big and feel nice for a while.
It is that time of the year to decorate our homes and front gardens with ornaments and coloured lighting in an attempt to say that we are nice people.
I can remember living in a house some time ago where each Christmas, the occupants of the house across the road would decorate their whole house with coloured lighting and ‘Merry Christmas’ signs all over… Yet they were the most unfriendliest people in the street. Ironical isn‘t it?
Let us begin with ‘Santa-Clause…
What would you say, if I told you that Christmas was not designed for Christians?
“What a load of cr**p!” Would be the most common and prevalent answer…
Well let us examine what I have just said:
The word ‘Christmas’ is the joining together of two words:
1/Christ, 2/Mass…Christ + Mass=Christmas!
Therefore, the term Christmas began with the Roman Catholic Church in about 320AD.
It was the ‘Mass of Christ’.
Therefore one would conclude that Christmas is a Christian festival?
Wrong!
We’ll come back to this later…
Jolly Ole Santa
It is generally taught that the idea (concept) of Santa-Clause came from the story of saint Nicholas, a catholic bishop who gave gifts to the children who had been good through the year as a reward.
It is now disputed if such a person did indeed exist, but was just a made-up fable!
So we must look deeper into the murky origins of this ’Santa-Clause’ character.
As we venture into the pagan past, and into the Celtic/Druid religion…We come across the god ’Odin’
Firstly, I would ask the reader to look closely at any image of ‘jolly ole Santa’ then look at any impression of Odin.
Odin was known among the Germanic tribes as ’Wodan’ (the day dedicated to Wodan is Wodens day=Wednesday)…
The name ‘Odin’ (meaning inspired one), was generally known for three things:
1/ the god of wisdom
2/ the god of magic and occult knowledge
3/the god of runes, poetry, and war.
This sounds a lot like someone else known to Christians!
Odin is often depicted as being a tall old man with a white beard and wearing a cloak.
According to tradition: Odin would carry a ‘Yulenir’ (one of Odin’s many names…literally meaning: ‘Yule-figure’) on the great hunt on the winter solstice.
Then children would place their boots filled with carrots and straw and sugar near the chimney for Odin’s flying horse (Sleipnir) to eat.
Odin would then reward those children for their kindness by replacing Sleipnir’s food with gifts.
So now we have this white breaded man performing magic/miracles on a white horse riding the skies, and his advisers watching all the people.
The Modern concept of Santa (Odin) originated in the 1920’s by the Coca-Cola company as an add in selling their product…From then on it progressed to the image that we have today.
Jingle bells
The jingling bells that we all hear at Christmas time goes all the way back to central Europe when this elf-god (Santa) would enter into a town at the winter solstice to either punish or reward the children of a village for their behaviour in the previous year.
His helpers (hideous demons) would announce their coming with the jingling of bells to let the people know that he his approaching the village.
The demon helpers became elves, and the single reindeer became 12.
So….where does this fit in with Christianity?
Church Lies and Deceit 