Santa Claus has been nailed to a crucifix outside a suburban US home in a bizarre protest against the commercialisation of Christmas. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=339781 Has this guy lost the plot? He has his metaphors really mixed.
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Well and truly lost the plot... Hopefully someone has told him.... The "Chocolate Jesus" art installation this year was a much better protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.
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I don't get his point. Santa Claus is all about commercialism. The image we have of Santa Claus was created by a Coca Cola artist many decades ago with the basic idea of selling Coca Cola. Santa Claus was never a religious icon. Even when it's origin is St. Nicholas, there is such a very, very thin connection that it shouldn't count as a real religious deity or figure. Nailing a figure of Jesus covered with store sales fliers would make more sense, if you want to make that kind of protest.
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That sounds to me like a metaphor for the emerging of commercialization as a religious belief. Meh, some people will do anything to get attention.
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at least he's trying unlike Matt
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It is not so much a mixed metaphor as mixed traditions. I think it makes his point, which is fundamentally a complaint about the mixed traditions, very clearly, and is as acceptable as it ever is to display in public images of people being tortured to death. But in some ways, he is on the wrong side: the pagan mid-winter festival was deliberately chosen by early Christians as the time to celebrate Christmas in order to take over from preceding festivities. The pagan tradition of a solstice blowout is now making a come-back. There is no evidence whatever about what time of year Jesus was born. If the story of the census and everybody having to travel back to their home town is true (unlikely - why do that? You want to know where people live now, not where their tribe came from), it is very unlikely to be in the winter when the roads would be at their worst and travel would be most difficult.
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i think he`s gone a bit over the top but he has got a point us human beings we are like sheep at times spend spend spend its not right is it?
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