Santa’s Crimes Against Humanity

Sorry for the lack of updates. Holidays and work have been really kicking my ass as of late. C’est la vie. On a brighter note, 10ZenMonkeys has thrown up a piece written by the late, great Robert Anton Wilson entitled, “Santa’s Crimes Against Humanity.”

An excerpt:

It wasn’t the first time Mr. Claus got the boot from a Christian congregation. Pope John XXIII threw the suspiciously merry old clown out of the Roman Catholic church back in the late 1960s. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have always denounced Santa for his unsavory pagan past. (They also recognized Christmas trees as phallic symbols long before Freud.) Many fundamentalists believe that all pagan gods are basically one false god — the same demon in different disguises — and they think the disguise is thin in the case of this particular elf. It only takes a minor letter switch, they point out, to reveal Santa Claus as SATAN Claus.

I sort of think the fundies have it right for once. Santa not only has an unsavory pagan ancestry but a rather criminal family history all around. Let me Illuminize you…

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season.