Uncle Sam
12-14-2005, 10:38 AM
Murderous Santa Display Draws Stares
NEW YORK (AP) - 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?
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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.
No one answered the family's door to explain on Tuesday, but Krupnik told the New York Post it was a statement about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.
"Christmas has religious origins," he said. "It's in the Bible. Santa is not in the Bible. He's not a religious symbol." MORE... (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051214/D8EFO2CG3.html)
NEW YORK (AP) - 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?
http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/SCARY_SANTA.sff_NYKW101_20051213125401.jpg
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.
No one answered the family's door to explain on Tuesday, but Krupnik told the New York Post it was a statement about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.
"Christmas has religious origins," he said. "It's in the Bible. Santa is not in the Bible. He's not a religious symbol." MORE... (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051214/D8EFO2CG3.html)