Is santa clause actually representation of bad?

Question

I was curious to as how santa clause was created. I found many articles saying santa clause is actually a disguise for satan. santa claus= satan lucas. Is this the real meaning of santa? If it is why do christians and what not celebrate such an evil figure?

Answer 1

Santa is bad...he turns chrismas into a greedy holiday instead of a joyous giving one. BURN THE SLEIGH!!!

Answer 2

"Santa" means saint in Latin. There is no equivocating him with anything satanic.Some Christian sects go way too far when forming their church doctrine about how we celebrate Christmas, etc., calling them "pagan" holidays. Their loss. Anyway, Santa Clause originated in Holland a long time ago and many myths have been formed around him. He was a real man who went about giving gifts once a year. The Catholic church voted him into sainthood and as Christianity grew and spread we started celebrating Jesus's birth on Dec 25th (shoving the pagan gods out of the way) and combined the gift giving as a further means of celebration. Christmas, as we know it today was not really celebrated until the mid 19th century. Adding Santa Claus was a way to make it fun and mysterious for children which was an idea of some business man in order to commercialize and make lots of money off of the holiday. At least that's the version I read a long time ago.

Answer 3

Santa Claus is Saint Nicholas.

Answer 4

Happy Saint Patrick's day! So until about the mid 1800s Christmas was similar to St Patty's day. Lots of drinking and partying. Then a poem was written "Twas the night before Christmas". That introduced st nick to us. Satanic? Sure but I assume all religion is satanic. Control and misery is all they breed. But at least it gave me the greatest Halloween costume. Satan Claws. Santa outfit with a devil mask.

Answer 5

Santa Clause is the only good thing about Christmas.

Answer 6

I do not think he is satan but i did find this. ( Some religious historians and experts in folklore believe that there is no valid evidence to indicate that St. Nicholas ever existed as a human. In fact, there are quite a few indicators that his life story was simply recycled from those of Pagan gods. Many other ancient Pagan gods and goddesses were similarly Christianized in the early centuries of the Church. His legends seems to have been mainly created out of myths attributed to the Greek God Poseidon, the Roman God Neptune, and the Teutonic God Hold Nickar. "In the popular imagination [of many Russians] he became the heir of Mikoula, the god of harvest, 'who will replace God, when God becomes too old.' " 8

When the church created the persona of St. Nicholas, they adopted Poseidon's title "the Sailor." They seem to have picked up his last name from Nickar. Various temples of Poseidon became shrines of St. Nicholas. 1 "In medieval England... in tiny sea ports we find the typical little chapel built on an eminence and looking out to sea." 8 St. Nicholas also adopted some of the qualities of "The Grandmother" or Befana from Italy. She was said to have filled children's stockings with gifts. Her shrine at Bari was also converted into a shrine to St. Nicholas.

The Christian church created a fictional life history for St. Nicholas. He was given the name Hagios Nikolaos (a.k.a. St. Nicholas of Myra).

Answer 7

Santa Claus has nothing to do with Christianism.

Many christians (catholics) do it cause they find it fun and to make christmas more entertaining. Christmas itself is not a biblic even.

But I won't lie to my kids and create a false belief in their mind. Letting them hope for gifts from a bufon is really bad to me.

Answer 8

Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas, a real person

Answer 9

Where you've read those ridiculous things? Anyway, Santa Claus is bad character only when do not have presents for all ( kids, sure) and that is really unfair..

Answer 10

I heard Santa began as Saint Nicholas, a Norwegian I think, but don't recall ever hearing that he was Freddy from Elm Street type.

Answer 11

i have no longer obtrusive the beast, in spite of the undeniable fact that i have been monitoring him for distinct years. to date i have said a number of alerts that communicate about that the fabled Santa does certainly exist. those alerts comprise cookie crumbs left around the hearth each Christmas and footprints in the ashes of the hearth. they were a length 11 and made the effect of a boot. I also positioned some droppings on the roof that were too vast for the squirrels and appeared to be that of a huge grownup human. those alerts aspect to the existence of Santa.