But did anyone realize that Santa Claus is a replacement of God. I mean he is jolly, he hears what your thinking, and has magical powers. I don't believe in him of course. But i was just pointing that out.
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I can see how some would think that, yes. But Santa Claus is just made up and fictional, and its not like anyone worships him  or anything. He was just created to make the holiday more exciting, I think.
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Why, just the other day, on my way to Sunday school, to teach the cute little kids lies and fire and brimstone .. I noticed MY carnation was all wilted, on my suit jacket.\n\nIt MAY have been a sin, but I stopped at the widow Simpson's flower bed and got a new one out of the ground, and reincarnated myself!\n\nSo, Jim (Welcome back).. it IS possible, this re in carnation stuff.\n\nand there you are too .. so it MUST be true, since we all know miracles do not really happen!
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The short answer: God = Santa Claus.
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Yes, Santa Claus still exist for those of us that have not gotten so caught up in all of the crap and life experiences.  I feel that part of the problem with the world to day is that we have forgotten how to play and have fun and we have forgotten how to use our imagination.  Life should not be all about working and paying bills, learn to have fun and live life to the fullest for you never know when you time is up.\n\nLife is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming…\n \n“WOW – What a Ride!!!”
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Even though I do not believe in god I do not compare god with Santa. You're not taking the people who believe in god serious by calling them addicts. All religions are not only something to believe in, but also a set of morals to live by. In practice most religions are more a way of life then a belief. Also does this believe help a lot of people, giving them more strength. If this religion helps them and makes them better people who are you to call them addicts? \n\nA part from that it is okay if you do not believe in god, but you have to understand that that is a belief al the same. You believe that there is no god. That is your reality, but for people who believe it is their reality that there is a god. Your reality is unique. By that I mean that what you see, feel, hear and most importantly think is unique. There is a point for every kid that they start calling themselves "me" and "I". That's when they're able to understand that they have their own mind. Self-conceptualization. You have to place yourself a bit more in other people and do not assume that your reality, your truth, is the only reality there is.
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~I would never take christ out of christmas.  Merry mas.  It just doesn't sound right at all.  But Saturnalia still has a nice ring, it's at the right time of year, the presents are just as good, and it doesn't get bogged down with all that religious hokem.  Maybe I'll just switch.  \n\nIn case I miss you come December,\nMerry Mas.
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Of course Santa is real. He lives in the hearts of children all over the world.\nHis name is dervied from Santa (Nic)Claus, Saint Nicholas.
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I tried to give up Zombies for lent... Not doing so well am I? Nah... Looks like he was something close... I'm thinking hybred. His father was God and all so he had all the good in him. But there was that life after death thing... Hmmmm. \n\nWhat THE HELL? Lightning just taged the building! Wow... That was weird... Huh...
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Can you prove that Santa doesn't exist? If you went to the North Pole to look for him, searched everywhere, yet couldn't find him,  couldn't it just be said that you weren't looking in the right place? Or that you weren't looking hard enough? Or that you didn't have an open mind about things? Or that you clearly don't have faith in Santa, and so therefore, he hasn't revealed himself to you? Or that he doesn't want you to see him right now because it's not his will? Can you really prove that Santa doesn't exist if someone really really insist on believing in Santa in the face of logic and knowledge? Nope. They will just make up a million excuses as to why you can't see or find Santa coming down to the fact that you, "Don't believe". Silly I think.
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I just have to say that that idea that God is going to smash certain people with his big toe really doesn't go over well with me!  That is not how I see God at all.  To me, God would be perfect in love and knowledge, and therefore he would know what is making people act and think the way they do, and he would love them - not "smash them with his big toe."  That just paints such a stupid picture of God.  It is irreverant in my opinion.  Sorry Mainworry, that's just how it strikes me.
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Not sure what you're asking, exactly, but if you mean "tell the child that Santa Claus is not real", I'd say don't set up the elaborate lie of "Santa Claus" to begin with. Why deliberately deceive children and set them up for disappointment?
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I don't. I don't teach my children about Santa. I tell them i am responsible for all the nice pressies. : )
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If one see animals that are not from this realm it doesn't negate that they exist, it merely means that they are seeing beyond this plain of existance. I have as a Totem animal the mighty Lepreachaun named Erniesta O'Latern of the Spanish Donegal and People try and tell me all the time that She doesn't exist yet I know that She does. So yes Sweetie Pie mythological Totems do exist and Your friend is really seeing those non existant armidillos. My other Totem when Erniesta is out of town ( She has a time share in the Caymans ) is Santa Claus! People are hard pressed to say Old Nicky doesn't exist eh, eh?.
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My parents have never said anything about God or Santa my entire life, I was free to decide everything for myself.\n\nI never believed in Santa and realized there was a God around three years old because I realized humans weren't very bright so I had to look else where for truth.\n\nI've raised my son the same way, he's always known there wasn't any Santa without me telling him and he seems to be intelligent enough to also know there's a God. But we don't talk about that either because we don't have to.
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Amen to that brother!\nI beleive their is one god- not Jesus or mohammad or whoever, they are like the managers.  I hope others have the same idea.  And imagine if the world actually accepted each other as a different brabch of the same tree.  \nThank you for your input- and don't be afraid to share your thoughts with others.  It's all about understanding.
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I'm not, but I do appreciate having people in this section besides all the christians.  they kind of dominate it.  i consider myself a pantheist - god is all of existence, and nothing more - no divine conscious.  "god is the universe"  Additionally I do zen meditation.  neither of these practices do i really consider to be religious.  Christians would probably call me an atheist, because i don't believe in what they call God or really in anything supernatural.
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Mysterious Santa brings cheer to lonely in nursing homes, hospitals\n\nJohn C. Atkinson, 70, will be in a nursing home on Christmas.\n\nAnd he'll be loving it.\n\n"You get a good, hearty feeling out of it altogether," he said. "It makes you feel so good."\n\nAtkinson will spend Christmas morning at Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center, handing out gifts and goodies to some 200 residents. Other volunteers with the century-old Savannah tradition called Mysterious Santa will deliver some cheer to other nursing homes and hospitals.\n\nFor some nursing home residents, the visit itself is a rare thing.\n\nMore than 50 percent of nursing home residents have no close relatives, and 46 percent have no living children, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. At Riverview, interim administrator Janet McKay estimates about half the residents never get a visitor.\n\nNot even on Christmas.\n\n"That's how this program got started in 1902," said the current Mysterious Santa, whose identity remains confidential. "Eugene Smith was in the hospital Christmas Day, and he had no visitors. He made a promise: Lord get me well, and I won't let this happen to anyone else."\n\nThe Savannah businessman made good on his promise the next year.\n\nThe tradition has been growing bigger ever since - first with Smith, then with a string of other Santas carrying on the tradition.\n\nThis year, the Mysterious Santa and his bevy of volunteers will set out about 6:30 a.m. Christmas morning and visit nearly 3,000 patients at 27 locations, including hospitals and nursing homes. Each of the children will be given a toy, while the adults will get some fruit.\n\nThe volunteers reap something even more valuable.\n\n"It's worthwhile just seeing the people's faces when we come in," Atkinson said. "You get hugs, and people holler out, 'Here comes Santa Claus, ho ho ho.'\n\n"I just get a good feeling out of it."