WharfRat
12-14-2005, 08:49 AM
Murderous Santa Display Draws Stares
Dec 13, 9:19 PM (ET)
By DAVID B. CARUSO
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?
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."
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Ummmm... disturbing.... :shakeno:
Dec 13, 9:19 PM (ET)
By DAVID B. CARUSO
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?
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."
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Ummmm... disturbing.... :shakeno: