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p2pnet news | Off Topic:- Art Conrad’s Christmas gesture is being reported even in China.
“U.S. man crucifies Santa to protest commercialism,” states the country’s state news agency Xinhua.
Conrad, of Bremerton, Washington, “said he intended to use the bizarre image to draw attention to the holiday’s growing emphasis on consumerism.”
Santa, “has been perverted from who he started out to be,” CTV has him saying. “Now he’s the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff.”
His Crucified Clause is on display outside his home.
“On one of Conrad’s Christmas cards, a photo of the crucified Santa carries the message,
‘Santa died for your MasterCard’,” says the story.
Also See:
Xinhua - U.S. man crucifies Santa to protest commercialism, December 24, 2007
CTV - Santa crucified to protest Christmas commercialism, December 23, 2007
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December 24th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Christmas isn’t Jesus’s birthday. It has been moved by the Pope back in the 1400’s in order to get more Jews to convert
December 24th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I believe it was moved to coincide with a pagan winter solstice festival.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
IIRC, The Roman festival of Saturnalia did that first (where giving gifts comes from), and Christmas usurped that.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
and i believe…who cares? (about the original date)
otherwise, great sentiment from the guy in washington.
power to the people!
December 24th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
fuckin’ awesome.
December 25th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
The time of Yeshua’s (Jesus’) birth was most likely on the first day of Sukkote. This holy festival is mentioned in Leviticus 23:34. Please keep in mind the the Biblical calendar is much different than the civil (Roman - Gregorian) calendar that is used in the world today. Sukkote begins somewhere within September or October. The date is not fixed (within the Roman -Gregorian) calendar due to the fact that the Biblical calendar is determined by new moons rather than an arbitrary numbering system used by the Romans.
EE is correct in stating that the celebration of Yeshua’s birth was moved to coincide with the Pagan winter solstice celebration. This was done in order to combine the Pagan religion and early Messianic belief in order to consolidate the main religions practiced under Roman rule. This merging of Pagan and Messianic belief under Constatine became known as Catholicism. Those wanting a good in depth study of this info can Download “The Jonah Code and the Seventy Weeks Prophecy,” or if they are of the Christian persuasion, they can visit the website of the Philidelphia Church of God website http://www.pcog.org/Default.asp?siteMapId=LiteratureLibrary and download the title, “Pagan Holidays–or God’s Holy Days–Which?.” The first source is from a Messianic Jew, and the second source is from a Sabbath keeping Christian Church. I am writing this not to promote ir rally against any religion but to present information and historical fact.