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Is it wrong to convince children that Santa exists?
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I don’t think "convincing" is necessary. Just tell kids he’s real, if they believe in him. It’s not a hard concept to give a kid a little imagination.and hope that life has a little magic in it.
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Yes. It instructs them to be credulous. And it teaches them that material reward can be provided free of cost by some external agent. Both of these combined encourage popish statism: a credulousness worthy of Romish witchcraft and an insistence that the state (subservient to Rome) can provide all goods and services for its constituents.
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i used to believe in santa as a kid and i now despise people whp think and act like what you describe. funny enough people who were told santa wasnt real are now a bunch of ingrate uncultured opportunistic npcs that regurgitate what they see on social media.
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>people who were told santa wasnt real are now a bunch of ingrate uncultured opportunistic npcs that regurgitate what they see on social media.
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my source is i dont spend time all day in my mom’s basement and i watch how friends from childhood grew up. you could make an argument that belief in santa equals a stronger belief in god, which in turn is a belief in higher transcendental values, which in turn will make for a more evolved and complex human who uses his own god-given free will, spirit and mind in order to study and act on the world.
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are bullshit, you cant accurately speculate on the effects of believing in santa like that, the human mind is more complicated than that and most of the time different people react and develop differently subjected to the exact same stimuli.
however i’m merely speaking from my own experience
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>my source is my baseless anecdotal nonsense
ok lol keep me posted
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>free of cost
You have to be good though.-
free at point of supply
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFQWKulEyo
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This video made me tear up like a bitch. Fuckin hell
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I love that part in video, when she singing: Santa is better then mama , you sit on his lap and get in banana …
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Yes, knowingly lying to children isn’t okay just because Coca-Cola says it is.
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Yes.
You’re better teaching your kids about Christ, the heroic story of the real St. Nicholas of Myra, and doing charity work alongside gift-giving for Christmas.
I am legit bothered how little the stories of the saints are taught to kids, even amongst Catholics and Orthodox. Growing up hearing about heroes and love would be heartwarming. -
>Be me.
>Nephew (9 years old) is fascinated with Christianity, because both his mom (sister) and dad are secular households (and divorced).
>Ask if Santa is real, because everyone at school says he’s not.
>Lay it out to him that he’s real, and was a Bishop that lived a long time again; thus he is alive in Christ in Heaven.
>Nephew has been happy ever since, and now brags to his friends that Santa is real, but they are just heretics.
My sister still hasn’t forgiven me since my Nephew called a Lutheran priest a heretic and he’s worse than the garden gnomes.-
you made that up ? if it is true, that’s hilarious and woke af
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>Nephew called a Lutheran priest a heretic and he’s worse than the garden gnomes
woke af but only if you’re a protestant, cringe if you’re a papist. -
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Both stories are real. I’m the only one in my family that is concerned that he’s not baptized yet. Once he moves back to his mother’s (for when school starts up again), I plan to baby sit him again. He likes to ask questions about EVERYTHING, so I naturally just answer them all; problem is that he doesn’t have a word filter and it gets him in trouble.
>Great-grandma’s funeral
>Mom, sister, and I are the only ones that bothered to wear all black in mourning.
>I’m being forced to enter the Nave, when I told them that I can’t worship alongside everyone (it’s a sin); but my sister is insistant.
>I read from my Orthodox service book by myself
>After service the Lutheran priest approaches me at the funeral after party where everyone is eating.
>He recognized my service book and orthodox cross.
>We talked amicably about what church I’m from, and his own interests of my faith.
>After we parted, my sister approaches me, "WHAT DID YOU DO?"
And the rest was history.
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I will teach my children that Santa is one of the previously rare but now somewhat common youkai that doesn’t feed from fear. He instead feeds instead from positive emotions during a certain period of the year.
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My cousins and my pastor think Santa is bad for kids because once they find Santa isn’t real they’re liable to doubt God is real
What’s some good ammunition against this argument? I can point out that cs lewis wrote father Christmas into narnia
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The truth.
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Saint Nicholas as a historical figure and Santa are different stories
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Santa Clause is the Anglicized version of the Dutch corruption of his name.
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