Wednesday, December 21, 2022

A Visit from Saint Nicholas

I've been getting some holiday cards, as one does at this time of year. I just have to share the kitschiest one:

  • Doesn't it make you wonder what happened to Mary and Joseph? Did they go out on a date or something? 
  • If Santa Claus is a saint in some form or other, then how could he exist when Jesus is still an infant? 
  • And what is that deer — not native to Palestine as far as I know — doing hanging around the stable? 
  • Not to mention the implied Christmas trees. Those came from German traditions.
  • And of course Jesus is white, which almost goes without saying in this kind of imagery.

Americans are very strange.


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