"Realistically detailed"

I couldn't keep this from you:

On my search for a translation of Thomas Aquinas' Summa, I found something quite different. Appart from being different, it is also a) horrible and b) very interesting.

Here we see two traditions (on the one hand the tradition of the nativity scene underneath the Christmas tree, which has developed from nativity plays in late medieval churches created to involve the ordinary laity in the experience of religion; and on the other hand the tradition of a Santa Claus bringing gifts from the North Pole, which developed from a Dutch/German tradition evolving around a locally (Amsterdam!) and regionally (oceanic trade!) important saint, who in the Middle Ages would have provided a connection to Chirst and an advocate to St.Peter/God (to obtain a seat in heaven)); we see these two traditions, that share their earliest origin (Christianity), and that have subsequently been separated for twenty centuries, REUNITE, in this magnificent/horrendous celebration of bad taste.