Posted on 12/26/2005 8:14:44 AM PST by Conservatrix
BETHEL — While controversy swirls over a substitute teacher who told first-graders that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, a local dairy farmer and church deacon has put the same message in a very public place. By erecting a sign along the eastbound side of I-78, between the Bethel and Grimes exits, Leonard H. Martin has taken it upon himself to shatter the myth of Santa Claus for any youngster able to read the message from the back seat of a car as their parents drive by.
It marks the second consecutive year that Martin has posted what he termed a spiritual message on his land adjacent to I-78.
Last year, the sign stated, “Santa is a myth, lying to our children brings moral decay.”
For this season, Martin toned it down slightly. The sign now reads, “Worship God, who is all knowing & all seeing, Santa is a Myth.”
Martin, who operates a dairy farm at 250 Legion Drive, Bethel Township, is also a deacon with Harmony Christian Fellowship.
“We wanted to bring out the point that (Americans) are making Santa out to be what God actually is,” Martin said Tuesday. “We’re making Santa a god. I believe that is idol worship.”
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I hope he doesn't mind me erecting a Satanist porn billboard on my property that he drives his children by.
Sounds like he's also too rigid for his church's good. You don't convert people to your ideas by making them mad right off the bat over something so silly. The idea of Santa Claus can be incorporated quite easily into Christianity by explaining to children that Santa (or as we called him, St. Nicholas) gives gifts to children to celebrate Jesus's birthday.
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