Santa Claus is Satanic! Is it really Satanic?

Early Christian changed a lot of things to suit their new converts who were mostly pagans.  Emperor Constantine engineered a lot of these changes.  As I understand, these changes were basically born out of his ingenuity to rule a society with diverse religions as a society without fractions. 

The Roman pagans who got proselytized to Christianity had had days they celebrated some festivities like Sunday which was a day they worshipped Sun God. Christians replaced it with a day for remembering the resurrection of Christ. If you want to know more about all the pagan practises that got redefined and made holy and Christian,  you should use the Googler okay? 

It is just like here in Africa,  we are practising Christianity but still trying to preserve our cultures through it.

How do we preserve our culture through Christianity?  

 Masquerade is a form of entertainment in Africa. It happened that while I was growing up,  every time I heard Christmas,  I always associated it to a time for me to see masquerades dancing to entertain people.  Our local musical instruments too are now being used in some churches and I love that by the way. 

 I have seen several posts of people condemning churches where Christians were dancing to their traditional songs. Well I can't say I  blame these posters.  They have managed to associate the ever beautiful Oja to symphonies of evil; the Ogene, to them, sounds like the gong that wakes evil spirits;   igba, udu and ichaka  make them feel like an evil native doctor is about to reduce them to fowls and use them for rituals.  So they only hanker after the contemporary  musical styles given to us by the White men.

Now,  if you are guilty of this,  I hope you know that  after parading your Pan-African  self to the whole world and yet you find your kinsmen's music repelling,  then you are still very much under the western spell.

Now,  most people ask,  "where did Santa Claus come from... It is not in the Bible." I intensely kiss my teeth at that. Must you find everyone's  culture in the Bible.  White wedding is not even in the bible and we do it,  so what else is new? 

Santa Claus has two stories to it: the one about Saint Nicholas  and the one about the evil Nimrod. Already,  English men had a system through which,  kids were given gift during Christmas by someone whom they chose to call  father Christmas.

The Germans who were Catholics venerated St.  Nicholas, and called him 'Sinter Claus' in their language.... St Nicholas is the patron saint of children and sailors.  He was known to anonymously give gifts to people while he was alive. During December 6th,  he is remembered, and someone will have to play his role by giving gifts to children and the less privileged .

By the way,  the U. S had their own culture in which Kriss Kringle would give gifts to children. 

So,  Santa Claus just came as a transliteration of German Sinter Claus .

Then again,  the fact that Santa wears a typical red and white regalia, plus a sleigh and reindeers that fly, all emanated from writers  and artists who wrote stories for children and painted Santa Claus images to their taste in 17th and 18th century.

It was around that time that Santa got his white tall beards,  his pot belly,  his sleigh and the flying  red nose reindeers.  It was still around that time that these writers assigned a home to him at the North Pole.

If Nimrod has striking resemblance with the new Santa Claus we know now,  heck  I don't bloody care. Santa just gives gift to children. It is just a story for children that parents like to keep  alive in order  to help their children behave much better.  If you behave really well,  say your prayers,  be obedient to mom and dad and help people,  then Santa will get your gifts.  If you don't,  then Santa won't... It's just that simple and it works for most parents.

The truth is the whole Santa myth will just last for a while and the kids will grow out of it and then during Christmas,  they remember the stories and that's all. So what I'm saying is.... That's their culture.  Nothing is satanic.  As far as I have known the Bible, Satan comes to destroy and not to make things right.

Santa on the other hand,  tries to get children to do the right thing.

I always thought Satan would have to do evil and uphold evil just as it's his duty to do so. 

I hardly see how Santa Claus is perpetrating evil in the society,  so on that note,  I don't think it is satanic. The same way I think the masquerades that dance for entertainment in my culture is not satanic... That is if the masquerade only dances to entertain people.

On this note,  I wish you my esteemed reader a Merry Brown Christmas from King Ifey.

Get your ears closer let me whisper to you something about the word Christmas... Get your ears closer... Alright. So Christmas used to be called  Christ's mass. A day slated for celebrating the birth of Christ in Catholic Church.  Then,  Xmas is meant to be pronounced as Christmas too

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