So Lisa and I while we were in MN went looking at Christmas Lights and we found some pretty "creative" displays. My two favorites are pictured below. The first picture I call Nationalistic/Civic Religion Santa (note the sign he holds states God Bless America) This house was on the news as it had a total of 84 blow up Christmas display thingies...thats alot of 40 watt bulbs...
The other picture is a bit harder to make out but in this picture we have a rather jolly Santa visiting the new born Jesus with the other wise men. Quite frankly I have no idea what to say and am quite crestfallen about words to describe these displays, words simply fall short. Does anyone want to create a caption for these?
2 comments:
HA!
i would love to say what i really think, but i should keep it tame and loving. i'm going to copy and paste some scripture that came to mind.
matthew 26:6-13
While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor." Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."
exodus 32:3-6
So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt." When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD." So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
i'm working on a pretty lengthy project, to be released sometime around next christmas about how santa claus and how we celebrate christmas in america accurately depicts american religious and theistic disposition.
i'm going to call it: the santa claus god.
haha, Thanks for this post it was enlightening. (That pun was for Katie O., it will motivate her to look at this lovely post)
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