Grandpa Nazi

Red, White and Black, in Jackboots is the wrong initiation into the image of Jesus...

Gerry Bowler, author of the 2005 book, "Santa Claus: A Biography,"

Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., which changed the lyrics of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" to "Santa Claus Will Take You to Hell."

"You'll find a rationalist streak that says I must not tell my kid a lie: If this is a lie then when I tell them about Jesus, well, that's just like Santa," adds Bowler, who teaches a course on the social history of Christmas at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

But Rev. John McCausland, "the newly retired New Hampshire vicar, doesn't buy it. The father of two grown daughters and grandfather of two can't recall a child who concluded Jesus didn't exist if Santa does not.

"I think literal grown-ups worry about that," he said.

Literal adults also think that a guy coming into your house through the fireplace, wearing a red, white and black uniform, and wearing Jackboots is the wrong initiation into the mysteries of the Christ...