http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2007/12/that_you_santa_claus/?source=rss current events, culture, faith, science and more Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:57:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2007/12/that_you_santa_claus/comment-page-1/#comment-22023 Joshua Claybourn Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:16:05 +0000 http://intheagora.com/2007/12/that_you_santa_claus.html#comment-22023 I don't think your position is necessarily mutually exclusive to mine. I think children should enjoy the silly stuff -- Santa, Rudolph, Frosty, and so on -- so long as they are told it is silly. I simply don't believe in insisting to children that it is real. Also, just for clarification, it is not really the secular nature of Santa that bothers me (though this is a big issue to many in the anti-Santa crowd). Rather, it is the unique insistence that children believe he is real. I don’t think your position is necessarily mutually exclusive to mine. I think children should enjoy the silly stuff — Santa, Rudolph, Frosty, and so on — so long as they are told it is silly. I simply don’t believe in insisting to children that it is real.
Also, just for clarification, it is not really the secular nature of Santa that bothers me (though this is a big issue to many in the anti-Santa crowd). Rather, it is the unique insistence that children believe he is real.

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