Santa Crucified

Santa crucified by consumerism: Man protests commercialized Christmas

Art Conrad hung a Santa from a cross in front of his West Bremerton, Wash. home, to make a statement about the commercialization of the holiday season.

Conrad has nailed jolly old St. Nick to a 15-foot crucifix in front of his home.

"Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be," Conrad said. "Now he's the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff."

Hey, Art? Duh?!
Old St. Nick, actually Agios Nikolaos, "victory of the people" is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a saint and Bishop of Myra in Lycia of Anatolia. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, children, and students. Now he's a big fat jolly Coca Cola pitchman living in the North Pole who enslaves elves and uses flying reindeer that are able to warp the space time continuum to break-in to people's homes to deliver presents? Yeah, Art, what's up?

Although, I gotta add that I can't wait to see what Art will be doing for Easter!