Murderous Santa Display Outside Manhattan Mansion
Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.
Krupnik told the New York Post it was a statement about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas. "Christmas has religious origins. It's in the Bible. Santa is not in the Bible. He's not a religious symbol."
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Ok, understanding that CHRIST-mas is a religous holiday (although most of the world tends to look the other way about that), where does it say that Old St. Nick is wielding a knife threatening poor defensless toys? St. Nick gave to children who didn't have anything, and while we seem to have merged his legacy with the birth of Christ...we should remember that fact separately from the religous holiday we are all so quick to put in the forefront. Not so sure Mr. Krupnik is being fair to Mr. Claus and what he stands for.
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