Vicar ruins Christmas for kids

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Santa Claus is not real, vicar claims to audience of primary school children


I wonder how Fox is going to deal with the war on Christmas coming from a vicar? Who said there's no such thing as Christmas spirit anymore?

A vicar has been forced to apologise after claiming at a primary school assembly that Father Christmas does not exist and recounting the gruesome story of Saint Nicholas.

Reverend Simon Tatton-Brown infuriated parents of youngsters at Charter Primary by questioning the existence of Santa.
He told children that Father Christmas was based on a grisly legend about Saint Nicholas, who bought three murdered children back to life.

The Church of England vicar described how the youngsters were killed by an evil butcher and placed in a barrel to be pickled and sold as ham.

Parents complained when their children, aged between five and 11, came home shell-shocked and the vicar of St Andrew's Church in Chippenham, Wilts. has now apologised.

But some mothers have already withdrawn their children from the school's Christmas concert at his church later this month.
Canon Tatton-Brown said: "I didn't intended to upset anyone or to dispel children's beliefs in Santa Claus, but I accept I was wrong.

Here's Scrooge himself

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