Best Buy and Geico: Santa-mas?
Best Buy and Geico Insurance Company are two of the first entities to get holiday television commercials up-and-running. Both of their spots include Santa; neither include mention of Christmas.
This may seem like nit-picking, but it is conspicuous: Santa has little or no relation to Christ--although he has become a symbol for Christmas (not the generic "holidays"). In fact, Santa Claus seems to be one of the older and tried and true attempts to get Christ out of Christmas--move somebody else in His place!
Besides, Best Buy has made publicly known that they won't make any exclusive references like "Merry Christmas" this season.
Anyways...you still can't make too harsh a judgment on a commercial with Santa.
~Kingdom Advancer
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2 comments:
Santa originally had something to do with Christ. He was a saint (St. Nicholas), a bishop to be exact. In fact, I believe the original santa suit was bishops' clothing.
Minor detail.
True. Hence my "little or no" comment. The fact is, though, the current image of Santa holds little resemblance to St. Nicholas, and has no (or almost no) relation to the birth of Christ.
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