Now these are my kind of Christmas decorations!!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051214/ap_on_re_us/slasher_santa


Macabre Christmas Display Makes Statement

NEW YORK - It's usually easy to tell where a person stands in the culture wars, but whose side is someone on when his Christmas decor is a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head?

Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.
In a telephone interview Wednesday, Krupnik explained that his family thought it would be a fun way to make a comment about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.....
 
Whoa.

Once again, I guess I'm the old fuddy-duddy. This is outside, in plain sight of children, etc?

Sorry, but if I was a parent walking by that house with my children (especially if they still "believed" in Santa) I would be very upset. Some things are appropriate for people old enough to understand the satire and message and totally INAPPROPRIATE for children.

If this was in his house, no problem. But if it's outside in public view, then I personally think it's very ill conceived. Young children are still - despite some arguments to the contrary - impressionable about some things, and this is one of them. And Christmas (even the Santa version) is one of the few times left for innocence and child-like belief in something special. Lots of families have found a way to combine the religious aspects and the secular without resorting to destroying the good feelings of either or both. I simply don't understand what's so brilliant about bastardizing it.
 
VF21 we will just have to agree to disagree on this one. I don't see how it is possible to Bastardize Christmass any more than it already has been. As for the "public" display Im not sure I woujld do it my self but I will defend his right to do so. Probably not any worse than things kids see on TV or in front yards during Halloween.



Eh it's probably just my Pagen roots showing. ;)
 
I am not going to get into a debate about the merits of this because that wasn't at all the reason I posted it. It was darkly humorous and fit in with the recent theme of posting weird stories from the Internet onto this website.
 
Celt - I understand what you're saying. As a parent and grandparent, I'm just a little concerned about the potential IF it's right out there. Not a major deal, because I don't know how much traffic there is in front of Manhattan mansions - never having been there and all.

If - and it's a big if - I was going by with my children - who were still of an age to love and revere Santa - I would be more than a little upset. That's all I was saying.
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VF21 said:
Celt - I understand what you're saying. As a parent and grandparent, I'm just a little concerned about the potential IF it's right out there. Not a major deal, because I don't know how much traffic there is in front of Manhattan mansions - never having been there and all.

If - and it's a big if - I was going by with my children - who were still of an age to love and revere Santa - I would be more than a little upset. That's all I was saying.
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LOL and had I not decided to keep my DNA out of the gene pool and were raising kids I'd probably agree with you. ;)
 
A tree covered with decapitated Barbie dolls as a message against the hyper commericialization of Christmas is brilliant.

Santa holding a severed head, however, doesn't really strike me as part of the same "message." Hilarious as all hell, as far as I'm concerned, but not particularly deep.
 
Secular American society and capitalism have pretty much turned a very serious and Christian holiday into a materialistic and commericial specticle that is no longer celebrated as the birth of Christ.

Peace on Earth and goodwill to all mankind.
 
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