He knows if you've been good or bad, so be good for goodness's sake.

Isn't that typical? We're supposed to be "good for goodness's sake," and what is to motivate us toward that end? A supernatural figure who somehow knows if we've been good or bad. In this simple christmas carol we have discovered the fire and brimstone of the new testament, with both its dark fantasy and empty speciousity. After all, if we are good in order to receive Santa's gifts, then we are not good for goodness sake. Yet this is what we sing to our children. Who is santa to judge if we've been naughty or nice anyway? At least God would know. But god is perhaps to abstract for kids. So we create a pagan god for our children, and through him we dilute the prophecy of the judgement day, and serve it to our youth year after year with their mother's milk. Jesus preached of forgiveness, not judgement, but Santa only gives to the good. Clearly the two of them have a philisophical dispute. For further information, I suggest "The Spirit Of Christmas" by Trey Parker & Matt Stone. Jibbah and the Jibblog welcome you to 2004.