In time for Christmas, I’m resurrecting something I wrote some years back…<\/p>\n
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Santa Claus has long been held up as a jolly figure to be admired and respected, particularly by the kiddies. In reality he is a far darker and more sinister figure who promotes greed and self interest. Below is a list of the evils (both proved and alleged) perpetrated by Mr S. Claus.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus demonstrably prefers to deliver gifts to specific racial groups. In South Africa, under apartheid, for example, Mr Claus generally delivered gifts to the children of white families but not black families. In spite of the fact that apartheid has now been abolished, Mr Claus continues to demonstrate this blatantly discriminatory behaviour.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus delivers more gifts, and more expensive gifts, to the children of wealthy families. Poor families receive poor quality (or no) gifts. The role Mr Claus has in preserving such social distinctions serves to perpetuate the subjugation of millions of people around the world, contributes to continuing racial tension, promotes envy and discord amongst peoples, and ultimately leads to the premature deaths of millions in the third world. In fact, Mr Claus is wanted for questioning regarding his role in starting World War II.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus can frequently be seen advertising for major businesses. He exhibits no ethical basis for making decisions regarding what products or businesses he chooses to endorse, often promoting alcoholic or other products which constitute major social problems and which are entirely inappropriate for the kiddies.<\/p>\n
Whilst Mr Claus encourages kiddies to write in with their Christmas wishes, he apparently ignores a large number of these requests.<\/p>\n
Since Mr Claus provides Christmas gifts, there is clearly no need for people to give each other gifts, so their focus becomes completely centred upon what they wish to receive.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus is said to reward children whose behaviour has reached an arbitrary standard, whilst those whose behaviour has failed to reach this level receive no reward. What we want to know is who gave Mr Claus the right to establish what level of good behaviour is acceptable.<\/p>\n
In spite of claiming to only provide gifts to \u201cgood\u201d children, Mr Claus generally will deliver gifts to children of rich white families regardless of their behaviour during the year, whilst children in the third world will not receive gifts regardless of whether they have been good or bad.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus frequently claims credit for gifts which he did not provide, but which have been provided by other people.<\/p>\n
It has generally become accepted that older males exhibiting a preoccupation with small children is a clear warning sign to parents. That is, unless the old male is wearing a large red suit and sports an extremely generous quantity of white facial hair\u2026<\/p>\n
Mr Claus sets himself up as an example to many kiddies. Yet what sort of example is he? Aside from the serious issues raised above, his obesity and propensity to leave food gifts of a fattening (or intoxicating) nature makes him an inappropriate role model.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus also goes under a number of other names: Father Christmas, Saint Nick, Fatty Boom Bah (all right, I just threw the last one in to see if you were still paying attention). Operating under a range of pseudonyms is a frequent ploy of criminals. Whilst the precise meaning of some of these terms is obscure, it is perhaps no accident that \u201cSanta\u201d is a palindrome of \u201cSatan\u201d (note that the Bible says that \u201ceven Satan disguises himself as an angel of light\u201d [2Cor 11:14]–or, in this case, as a fat bearded bloke wearing a red suit!).<\/p>\n
Mr Claus has been accused of actively discriminating against tall people, choosing to employ exclusively vertically challenged people whom he inappropriately designates \u201celves.\u201d<\/p>\n
An analysis of gifts left by Mr Claus reveals that a large number appear to have originated in locations which exploit child labour and other unethical working practices.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus reputedly operates from a base at or near the North Pole, a little known tax haven. Mr Claus thus makes no reports regarding his income or worth, and is not accountable to anyone. Such practices inevitably attract (or are set up) by organised crime. Fortunately, however, the onset of global warming may result in the melting of Mr Claus\u2019s euphemistically named \u201cworkshop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Widely disseminated information on Mr Claus indicates that \u201che knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you\u2019re awake.\u201d Sounds creepy, particularly when you know a little more about this man. We suggest you consider taking out a restraining order.<\/p>\n
Let’s face it, he’s supposedly based at the North Pole, and polar ice has been receding rapidly of late. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.<\/p>\n
Mr Claus has successfully turned almost all attention to himself at Christmas, obscuring the fact that it is originally a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. God is not happy that Mr Claus has hijacked Christmas in this way. You really don\u2019t want to be offside with God.<\/p>\n
I suggest that if you see Mr Claus, you report him to your local authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In time for Christmas, I’m resurrecting something I wrote some years back… Santa Claus has long been held up as a jolly figure to be admired and respected, particularly by the kiddies. In reality he is a far darker and more sinister figure who promotes greed and self interest. Below is a list of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}