unable to deal with death and darkness, hence by association not with birth either, we kill god in order to give rebirth to him as a jolly gift-giving fat man. if I were god I'd rather not be so impoverished. I'd rather have kept my mysteries. I'd rather die than be put in a red costume. but then again, we are talking about a culture that decided a year or so ago that pluto, which is hades, is not really a planet, but a dwarf planet.
we have god as santa and the king of the underworld as a dwarf. what next?