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The Santa crew and their mini-skirted elves were on their way to get drunk (drunker?) with another thousand Santa impersonators at "SantaCon," an annual gathering of St. Nicks. But they were willing to let the Reverend Billy attempt to save their souls.

Reverend Billy did not object to their plans for lubrication, but to their original Sin: collaborating with the Devil's work known as "Christmas Shopping."
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In May of this year, while preaching at the opening of the David Koch Theater in New York, the Reverend was seized by four unknown assailants and hustled into a black, unmarked car. (He soon found out these were Koch's hired goons working with New York City police. So, it was back to jail until a judge with a sense of humor sentenced him to 20 minutes of preaching in front of the courthouse.)

Apparently, the Kochs did not repent.

Won’t the economy collapse if we don’t buy, buy, buy at yuletide?

“This economy MUST collapse,” he said. Commercialism “makes us stupid” - and worse. Sitting in the front booth at the window of my favorite diner, his sermon was drawing a little crowd.

"Advertisements are THREATS.”