Dear Santa, evil is not funny

I know this commentary is a little late, but I have to rant on the newest holiday movie, Dear Santa. I will open my diatribe with, Dear Santa, evil is not funny; even if it’s a holiday movie starring Jack Black as Satan.

A little aside. What’s with Jack Black?

He starred in one of my top 20 all- time favorite movies, Nacho Libre and knocked that character out of the park. He was also great in School of Rock and the crude comedy, Shallow Hal.

But now, blasphemy? Really, Jack?

Dear Santa features the humorous antics of the prince of darkness, and is proof positive that Hollywood is so morally compromised it can no longer make a heartfelt Christmas movie,

Why is a movie featuring satan, titled Dear Santa? Well the plot goes like this, a dyslexic kid writes a letter to Santa , but places the letter “n” in the wrong place, resulting in the mail going to Satan.

Get it? Satan appears and ha-ha, hijinks ensue.

Oh, did I mention this is a holiday movie aimed at 10-13 year -olds? Does anyone find this disturbing, Hollywood mainstreaming the devil to pre-teens?

Anyway, the point of this post is not to give a review. It’s to ask why , during the season where we celebrate the birth of Jesus, is there a Christmas movie featuring the father of lies?

Oh c’mon Dex, it’s just a movie playing for laughs. Don’t you Christians have other things to worry about? After all, Santa isn’t even real.

That’s true, Santa Claus isn’t real, but satan is certainly no imaginary creation. Satan, is not some crazy-eyed short man with a grizzled voice espousing one liners for cheap laughs.

The Bible writes of Satan as a thief who does not come except to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). Satan is the author of sin, the personification of all that is evil in the world. You name it– murder, rape, incest, pornography, child and adult sex trafficking, war, genocide, violence, robbery, anarchy– the devil created it.

But in Hollywood’s eyes, Satan is comedy fodder. Irreverent, crude and powerful; he’s the ultimate bad-boy.

Unfortunately, nothing is good, funny or sympathetic about satan, and any attempt to humanize this malevolent being is pure foolishness . But that’s Hollywood, always trying to subvert what is good and dumping obscene amounts of money to humanize nefarious characters as “misunderstood.”

What do you expect? Lucifer is the god of Hollywood and while there are some strong Christian and conservative actors, they are few and far between and, mostly in the closet. Most everyone else bows the knee and gladly sells their soul for fame.

Dear Santa is currently streaming on Paramount + and the reviews are from mid to abysmal . So it looks like Hollywood’s latest effort to remove Christ from Christmas is like most of their content in last few years: a flop.

You think they’ll learn and make something more in tune with the holidays next year ? Nahh, probably not.

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