Hanging's too good for them!

[Gob]

A priest sick of 'mixed' Christmas messages has declared war on Santa's elves by hanging one from a noose attached to the front of his church.



Jon Knudsen, 45, from Lxkken, Denmark, believes elves are historically minions of Satan and they should not be associated with the Christian festival.

Jon claims there is a Trojan horse effect associating previously bad cultural creatures such as elves with the birth of Jesus.
In Scandinavia elves were historically thought of as evil spirits in the home which had to be banished by priests.

As these bizarre pictures show Jon has now decided to hang an effigy of the cheery Christmas character from the front of his church.



Under the prostrate elf hangs a sign reading: 'We renounce the devil and all his deeds and all his being'.

Jon has been hanging elves since 2010. He said: 'I think elves are house demons.

'In the old times before Christianity came to Scandinavia they were evil spirits which did bad things to people.

'When Christianity came, people asked priests to help them banish the elves which the priests did in the name of Jesus Christ.

'So now it is against Christianity to have these creatures associated with the birth of Jesus.

'People have tried to mix elves with Christmas and it is not right.'

Jon - who now offers exorcisms for elves from homes in Denmark - said hanging one from his church was a message that people should not worship false idols.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Shouldn't this be in "Noose and Suggestions"?

[Lord Jim]

That doesn't look like one of Santa's elves...

That looks like Mr. Punch....

A notorious spouse abuser, who deserved to be hanged...

[MajGenl.Meade]

The reason he's so haggard, sick and unrecognisable is that he's being abused at the National 'Elf Service.

[oldr_n_wsr]

And a Merry Christmas to that priest.

[Big RR]

Well, it's open season by malcontented clergy against the mythological figures of christmas--first Santa, and now the nissen (as I recall from my Danish grandmother, the Christmas elves (I think called yul nissen) would come to your house and decorate your tree and bring gifts during Christmas eve dinner). In Scandinavian mythology, the nissen were generally not bad, but mischevious, but the yul nissen were different and good. Another melding of christianity with pagan beliefs, and a testament to how Christmas can change even ancient creatures.

So now another cleric (I don't think Danish clergy are called priests) comes out to burst the kids' Christmas bubble. Bah! Humbug!