Was Santa one of the Wisemen that brought gifts to the baby Jesus?

[GingerSnaps]

Have Americans lost the true meaning of Christmas because of the media and the mass commercialization of the holiday?

I realized that I had lost it a few years back when I found the need to take a part time retail job at an upscale department store so that I could get the feeling of Christmas back into my life. What I witnessed was greed and to most shoppers Christmas was about buying gifts and how much someone was going to spend on them. Most people didn't find a need to even put a thought into the gift that they were buying for the other person. They bought the gift because of the price and the other person was giving them a gift for the same price. Comments were made about the Giftie being able to bring the gift back to the store if they didn't like it.

Maybe that is why department store lines after Christmas are so long with people returning gifts that had no thought put into it. If we all paused a second and started thinking about what the other person might like instead of grabbing anything to save time then it might make some of the true meaning of gift giving come back to us.

That brings me back to wondering about Santa and Christmas and why he was brought into the equation. Was Santa a figure that represented one of the wise-men? :shrug: