Which would a child prefer: Santa miraculously putting a toy under the pretty tree or Jesus offering salvation and inheritance in heavenly places?
One of the underlying problems damaging modern society is that people choose instant gratification over the wisdom involved in taking the long view. ‘Just do it,’ ‘Surge,’ ‘Go for the gusto,’ and ‘Have it your way,” have long been preferred over waiting for spiritual reward; and no one teaches the lesson of selfish hedonism any better than Santa. When this great nation was founded, Christmas celebrations were banned because of their pagan tradition and anti-biblical sentiment. Penalties and fines were in place for celebrating Christmas or for staying home on Christmas day, and Christmas did not become a sanctioned holiday until 1856. Druid witchcraft priests, the same people who brought you Halloween, worshipped the evergreen tree as a god because it did not turn brown and die. In Scandinavian folklore, the evergreen god-tree gave gifts when a person knelt at its feet. It is not a long leap from the tree of witchcraft to the traditions of the tree today. “Learn not the way of the heath
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