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Making room for Santa

19/12/2013 Leave a comment 1,106 Views

Actors Edmund Gwenn and actresses Natalie Woof and Maureen O'Hara in the 1947 classic Miracle on 34th Street. Photo by Twentieth Century Fox.

“Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa,” asks Bart Simpson. We wince, and wonder if this is how the post- Christian world really sees us. Have Santa and Jesus coalesced into a single mythical character of indeterminate age and girth, a miracle worker who is great with kids? There is no denying that ...

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