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Liam Iwakura (liam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 07:33:12 JST Liam Iwakura Snopes says the santa hung on a cross is a “legend”, then they “cite” (an Amazon affiliate link) to a BOOK that MENTIONS the display, and they leave it at that.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/santa-cross/
“Truth or fiction” pastes WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION this nugget of truth, then they give a (dead) link to the website of an "artist" (*I'm still unclear whether the guy actually made the display or just took a photograph of it)
https://www.truthorfiction.com/japan-santa-crucified-christmas-meme/
But even Mr. Yoshi's website (on The Internet Archive) doesn't have the full resolution image! I had to grab that [attached] off an actual NEWS SITE that did a write-up about it (the very writeup that ToF poached without attribution)—
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-21/how-the-iconography-of-easter-gets-lost-in-translation/11023774