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What a coincidence...Santa Claus is god for many children! Har har har.
Belief in Santa Claus: Don't know what to say. I'm normally very honest with my children but I did have them believe in SC. (The two littlest still do...I think.) My parents were "honest with" me and I was p*ssed because that way, I missed out on the magic. Just can't please kids, can ya?
Bottom line: we tell lots of stories to our kids, always have, probably always will and I don't frankly see anything so malicious as a belief in SC for a few years. It seems like most people who believed in him as little kids grew up not being mass murderers or in the psych ward so I have to assume it's all good.
As far as how God belief "should" die off (as well as Santa Claus belief), how completely silly. Why? I no longer believe that George Washington chopped down the cherry tree but that doesn't mean I don't believe there was ever a George Washington.
Why Santa died off while religious God did not as a person growing up?
Because Santa is not a coercive religion; God is. There is no church of Santa, one does not need to worship, repent, rapture to Santa. Santa is not coercive. God is all of that.
Why Santa died off while religious God did not as a person growing up?
Because Santa is not a coercive religion; God is. There is no church of Santa, one does not need to worship, repent, rapture to Santa. Santa is not coercive. God is all of that.
You've gotta be kidding me. What about all the "naughty and nice" stuff and having to be good for 364 days a year in order to get gifts on the 365th and the letter to Santa and the whole nine?
No, belief in Santa "dies off" because mature minds know from the beginning that there isn't literally a dude who comes down the chimney. Santa and God are not the same thing even in practice no matter how you slice it, although I know you're trying hard.
So you're saying it is measurably bad for kids to have believed in Santa and then realize there is no Santa later? Do you have any backup for this? Studies-wise, I mean, not somebody's pseudo-story about some untraceable person he or she "once knew" who wound up shooting at random people from on top of a McDonald's because he learned there was no Santa Claus.
You've gotta be kidding me. What about all the "naughty and nice" stuff and having to be good for 364 days a year in order to get gifts on the 365th and the letter to Santa and the whole nine?
No, belief in Santa "dies off" because mature minds know from the beginning that there isn't literally a dude who comes down the chimney. Santa and God are not the same thing even in practice no matter how you slice it, although I know you're trying hard.
You gotta be kidding -- for that useless thing under the tree on Christmas morning? You are a 30-year old, you call that a coercion?
Christmas gift and Santa to a child is nothing compared to religious coercion and religious brainwashing, which is re-enforced through out a person's life.
Think about all those years of Sunday school indoctrinations and church going through out the life with more preachings and brainwashing ...
Christmas gift and Santa to a child is nothing compared to religious coercion and religious brainwashing, which is re-enforced through out a person's life.
Edit: So your point is, as applies to this thread...? The OP's contention is that belief in God "should" die out like belief in Santa Claus dies out. You're refuting this, then, and agreeing that Santa belief and God belief are not the same thing?
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Har har har.
