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Junction City, KS
Ice storm
Winter 2007
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Junction City, KS
Ice Storm
Winter 2007
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Santa Clause Is not Coming To Town


EXTRA, EXTRA, EXTRA!!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
SANTA CLAUS ON PERMANENT VACATION!
“Attention one and all!  New startling revelation!  Santa
Claus is not real, therefore, this year there will not be a
Santa!  That’s right folks, you read right. Santa Claus does
not exist; he’s a myth, a deception, in other words, ‘It’s all
been a LIE!’”
From birth to somewhere between the ages of 10 - 13,
millions of people have fed the age-old lie to their children
about Santa Claus, coming down the chimney on Christmas
Eve to deliver toys to good little children.  It does not matter
that little Annie was “bad” all year round.  On Christmas
morning she will awake to find at least four of the six things
on her Christmas list, waiting for her under her big, lighted
Christmas tree.  It all seems so innocent on the surface.  As
little Annie grows up she learns that there never really was a
Santa Claus; only mommy and daddy running frantic from
toystore to toystore trying to find exactly what she asked
Santa for.  Imagine the disappointment, after being fed the
lines that Santa brings toys to boys and girls all over the
world on Christmas Eve, and not just any toys, but the very
toys all those boys and girls have asked for, to find on
Christmas day a Pac Man, when you asked for a Super
Mario Virtual Reality Home Entertainment Center.  How do
you explain that to a seven year old who has told every man
with a white beard, in a red suit with black boots precisely
what he wanted “Santa” to bring him for Christmas,
because he’s been a very, very good boy this year.  
No matter how you slice or dice it, it comes out the same;
the Santa Claus scheme is a hoax.  There are no reindeer
that fly around carrying a fat man in a sleigh with tons of
toys, who lands on rooftops, flops his big self down a
narrow chimney (and some houses do not even have
fireplaces), deposits toys under an unlit Christmas tree, in a
pitch dark room, in a house he has never seen before in his
life, and then with a wink of his nose, he zips back up the
chimney and rides off in his sleigh being led by the chief
reindeer with a red glowing nose.  But this is not a harmful
lie; it is just innocent fun for the kids.  
NEWS FLASH!  Any lie is harmful.  Why?  Because the
Bible says in Rev. 21:8, “But the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers,
and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:  
which is the second death.”
What is a liar?  A liar is any person who does not tell the
truth.  Is there such a thing as a good or bad lie?  Will
telling a “white lie” also condemn one to the second death?  
The Bible does not make any distinction between a good,
bad, or otherwise lie; it is not the lie that will condemn a
person but the actual telling of the lie.
Meanwhile, back to little Annie.  She now is grown and has
a family of her own.  And what does Annie do around
Christmas time?