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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
This is a beautiful post.
And this is what I feel. If you want to celebrate Christmas as a holy day, celebrate as a holy day.
But denying one pagan/non-religious symbol but keeping all the others seems a little hypocritical to me.
Anyway, back to the original question.
No, I don't believe Santa is bad for kids. I believed in Santa when I was small. I don't think anyone told me he didn't exist, I think I just grew out of him. Little clues here and there made me realize at a young age that he wasn't real. It wasn't so much believing in him as it was the idea of him. It makes kids happy...so if you celebrate it the non-religious way as I do (since I don't believe in organized religion), then who cares, it doesn't harm the child.
Now, if you have a teenager still believing in him then you might have problems, but there's proably much more going on that him or her still believing in Santa.
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Thanks for your comment on my post.
Question for you...I know you said you don't believe in organized religion, but do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God who came to earth and died for our sins? If not, I wonder why you celebrate Christmas in the non-religious way as you said. If people want to celebrate the Winter Solstice or have a Yule log or what every pagen ritual (including decorating a tree, which is discussed in the Bible, BTW) I don't try to tell them they can't, but I personnally find it hypocrytical to say you are "celebrating" Christmas, but want to take the religious/Christian aspects out of it.
BTW, I can't take credit for most of the post, I "stole" it from a sermon my Pastor preached 2 Sundays ago!
