. . as tree should notice that all the ornaments which Americans choose to hang on the tree are secularly themed, and that it is rare to see ornaments hanging on a tree whose purpose is to remind people that Christmas was originally a religious holiday. But perhaps the greatest influence and change Americans have wrought on Christmas celebrations is the shifting of emphasis from the figure of Jesus Christ to that of Santa Claus...
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But perhaps the greatest influence and change Americans have wrought on Christmas celebrations is the shifting of emphasis from the figure of Jesus Christ to that of Santa Claus. Yet even Santa Claus is based on a long prior history. Will Durant observes: St. Nicholas, in the 4th century, modestly filled the Episcopal See of Myra in Lycia, never dreaming that he was to be the patron saint of Russia, of thieves and boys and girls, and at last, in his Dutch name as Santa Claus, to enter into the Christmas mythology of half the Christian world (62)...
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