{"id":14773,"date":"2025-12-13T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=14773"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:38:14","slug":"santa-claus-innocent-christmas-fun-or-counterfeit-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/13\/santa-claus-innocent-christmas-fun-or-counterfeit-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus: Innocent Christmas Fun or Counterfeit Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Santa Claus dressed in red and saying “Ho Ho Ho” is how the devil announced himself in plays before appearing on stage in ages past. Consequently, Christmas is a pagan holiday and has nothing to do with Jesus either nor was this the time of year when He was born. And if God wanted us to celebrate his birthday it would have been included in the Bible and explicitly identified as well as mentioned in the early church within the Book of Acts. But this is an interesting tell for controlled opposition conservatives trying to exert influence over “Christians”, and consequently, this news outfit is run by a Devil worshiping Mormon. But this post<\/a> has a very good video on the pagan origins of Christmas and Easter, and why you partaking in them is not honoring God. And worth a mention, look at Allie’s dead eyes which is your sign something isn’t right with controlled opposition personalities they try to promote to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/shows\/relatable\/santa-claus-innocent-christmas-fun-or-counterfeit-jesus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Allie Beth Stuckey explains why her family chose to ditch the man in the big, red hat.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jesus is the reason for the season, but more often than not, it\u2019s Santa who takes front and center stage. A 2,000-year-old baby offering an intangible gift just can\u2019t compete with the big, red-suited, jolly man and his sleigh full of toys in the mind of a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s one of several reasons Allie Beth Stuckey<\/a> doesn\u2019t do Santa with her three kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this episode of \u201cRelatable,\u201d Allie presents a compelling case for ditching the man in the red hat and putting Jesus back on the throne of Christmas where He belongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santa invites confusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Allie acknowledges that Santa is a \u201cChristian liberty issue,\u201d meaning \u201cwe have freedom as Christians to disagree,\u201d she feels personally convicted to forgo the tradition to avoid confusing her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santa \u201cis a form of deceit,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want our kids to trust us … and it can cause this kind of dissonance or confusion in a child when we tell them that someone is real, is giving them gifts, is watching them … is taking a tally of the good deeds they do, the bad deeds they do … and then allocating gifts in accordance to their behavior \u2014 and then<\/em> to tell them one day that that system of morality around Christmastime doesn’t exist,\u201d she argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI do believe that that causes, even if just for a moment, mistrust between the parent and child\u201d and \u201cconfusion about what is actually true … about the mysterious and supernatural realm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But \u201ccausing mistrust through deceit\u201d isn\u2019t even the biggest issue, she says. Santa can also cause \u201ctheological confusion\u201d in developing children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santa and God have a lot in common, Allie explains. Both see us when we\u2019re sleeping, know when we\u2019re awake, and know if we\u2019ve been bad or good, but the key difference is Santa takes his gifts away when we fail to be good, whereas God, infinite in grace and mercy, does not dangle salvation as a carrot in front of us to keep us behaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santa \u201cis a legalistic form of Christ\u201d and a \u201ccounterfeit form of God,\u201d says Allie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there\u2019s the flip side of this pitfall. Children might view God as a kind of Santa Claus, who gives them material gifts in exchange for obedience or good deeds, turning Him from the perfect and holy king of kings and the savior of humanity into a \u201cfeel-good\u201d bringer of happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In either case, the similarities between the two figures can deeply confuse malleable children who are still learning to distinguish between fact and fiction, while simultaneously sowing distrust between them and their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santa distracts from Jesus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Allie\u2019s second reason for ditching St. Nick is that he draws the focus away from Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSanta Claus is the one who will give you all of your immediate desires and will fulfill all of the temporary pleasure that you long for because he is giving you something in the form of a tangible gift. … It’s no wonder that we as people, but especially children, have such a hard time actually focusing on Christ \u2014 the real gift-giver,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Santa sympathizers who argue that his mysterious nature \u201cmakes Christmas really magical\u201d and stimulates children\u2019s imaginations, Allie says that we can still foster imagination in our kids without lying to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And further, \u201cThe reality is that there is already a beautiful mystery of Christmas that no one truly understands,\u201d she says. \u201cWe are natural people who were intersected by the supernatural when Jesus became Emmanuel, God with us, made flesh. That<\/em> is the mystery of Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd so why would we create a counternarrative to that? A cheapened narrative, a legalistic narrative that gives all of the wrong lessons about morality and about what saves you and about what satisfies you and about what fulfills you?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Santa doesn\u2019t just distract kids from the true Christmas story; he also distracts parents, who are stressed and spread thin trying to maintain the Santa narrative through elaborate gift displays, Elf on the Shelf, staging half-eaten cookies, and dodging pesky questions from their kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt seems like when that starts to be the taker of our joy or the source of our stress and our energy and not discipling our kids and telling them what the advent, the coming of the Lord, actually means in their lives, well, then we have veered into idolatry,\u201d Allie warns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To hear the rest of her argument, as well as ways Christians can still incorporate Santa into their Christmas season without losing focus on what matters, watch the full episode above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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