But that is not how he is portrayed. The whole reindeer, sleigh and elves poison children.
If the coming of Christ to fulfill all the profecies that culiminates in His substitutionary atonement on the cross is left out of the Christian message, it means nothing.
Words mean stuff.
His portrayal in the secular ungodly media is not the good saints’s fault! I agree that words mean “stuff” - let’s read about Saint Nicholas the Wonder worker’s and then practice what he preached:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Nicholas_of_Myra
And let’s support the rebuilding of his home in NYC despite the secularists’ attempt to chase him away:
http://stgeorge.ia.goarch.org/nicholas.htm