News & Comment - Christmas 2005

[from Bizarre News] A Whole, New Kind of Christmas Controversy -

NEW YORK - A family erected a bloody Santa Claus display outside a New York home that has scared children and riled neighbors, The New York Post reported Tuesday. The display features a Santa with a bloody beard wielding a knife in one hand and a severed doll's head -- blood gushing from its eyes -- in the other. Beheaded Barbie dolls also decorate a bare tree. Non-practicing Jews Joel Krupnik and wife Mildred Castellanos said their scary Santa display protests the commercialization of Christmas. "Christmas has religious origins. It's in the Bible," Krupnik told the newspaper.  "Santa is not in the Bible. He's not a religious symbol.  Santa Claus has become a piece of Americana."

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