Note that God is capitalized, so it’s a proper noun, a name. I’m referring to the Christian God, in this case.
Santa Claus knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good. Santa is omniscient. He knows all. God knows all.
Santa is completely selfless and generous. He creates infinite presents out of infinite raw material. It’s seemingly conjured out of nowhere, almost as if a… miracle… had occured. With his sled, he can defeat the laws of physics. Maybe he controls time to complete his tasks. His powers seem limitless, almost omnipotent.
Santa can reward you for good behavior, or punish you for bad. On a larger scale, this is a reflection of the “afterlife.” Instead of Christmas, it’s the day of your death. The present is heaven, with eternal rewards, and the lump of coal is hell.
The timing also helps the parallelism. Christmas takes place in the winter. Winter can be a symbol for death. Spring is the renewal, and thus, the afterlife.
So is Santa supposed to be Satan or God? Or is he just Santa? I may also attempt to compare Santa to Jesus, but not tomorrow. Tomorrow, I speak of death.
for a little bit of background info, you might note that the saint Nicholas whom santa is named after was from Myra, a city in present day Turkey, nowhere near the north pole, and was probably of mediterranean descent. Similarly to the way a religous figure such as Jesus is often depicted by some to look Anglo-Saxon, rather than Hebrew, Santa is often shown as a fat white guy, both of which are most likely due to the overcommercialization of what they represent. Santa has come to symbolize what society has made out of him, a judgmental, even malicious (with regards to bad children), toymonger who has been perveted so far as to look like the devil in a weak disguise.
Why red anyway? Is he a commie or something? Siberia isn’t that far from the north pole, at least not as far as Turkey
… the hell?