Question for everyone?

Question

In the interest of creating a database of questions and answers, what are your answers to the following:

Does God exist? Does Santa Claus exist?

Is there a book about God that is a collection of other books written by many authors?
Could we collect the books about Santa that have been written by manyauthors and put them in a book?

Do people ask for things in God's name, and do these prayers sometimes get answered yes and sometimes get answered no?
Do people ask for things in Santa's name, and do these gift requests sometimes get answered yes and sometimes get answered no?

Is there any empirical evidence that God exists?
Is there any empirical evidence that Santa exists?

What is your reaction when an adult person tells you they believe Santa exists? What is your reaction when an adult person tells you they believe God exists?

Disclaimer: I am only asking questions to get a database of questions and answers and not trying to be funny or offensive at all

Answer 1

If Santa is really your dad giving you presents, then perhaps that really is who god is? After all he was supposedly Jesus' father. I respected my father and never swore, smoked or drank before I was of age, out of respect for my parents and just the way I was brought up. But, I do not believe in God.

Answer 2

God does not exist nor does Santa Claus. Both fall into the realm of myth.. the only difference being is that Santa was actually based on a real person - Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra.

Yes there is a book about God that is a collection of smaller books with many authors called the bible. We could collect the different world myths about Santa Claus and put them in one big book and it would be much the same thing.

Yes, some people ask for things in God's name and some will say they have been answered. However, I remain highly skeptical of that.. I think of it more as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes people - mainly children - ask for things in Santas name and yes they get answered only because the parents of the child perpetuate the myth of Santa until the child is old enough to recognize a myth is not real.

There is no empirical evidence stating God nor Santa exists.

I will never tell another what they should or should not believe in, that is personal freedom; however, when an adult tells me they still believe in Santa I wonder to myself how they could not have learned the difference between myth and reality. I feel the same way about belief in God but God is a much deeper rooted myth and more sociologically embedded (Santa only is around in Dec.) so it takes a lot lot longer for some to realize myth and reality. Some never do either by choice and that is their right - part of their free will just as it is my free will to believe in reality.

Answer 3

people are asking questions here. People has made Internet. People try to communicate.
They all need something. A friend. A lover. An answer. A solution. Better life. Happiness. Welfare. Good health. Hopes. Dreams.

How you call such things? How you called search for better, for happier, for truth?
i call it God. I call it Santa Claus. And why?
Because God and Santa Claus gives us hope to love, to dream, to forgive, to live, to be better and happier.
There is only one word: HOPE.
Hope never dies.
Every New Year Hope arises again. Therefore Santa Claus appears.
In fact, there are millions Santa Claus everywhere. They are all giving us hope.
We all live because of the dreams of small child. When the small child will no longer hope, the world will be ruined.
Reality is not making hope and dreams.
Hope and dreams make reality.
Hope is God.
Dreams are Santa Claus.

Answer 4

Interesting to me that you would put Santa in the same catagory as God! The both promote good feelings from childhood that we pass down to our own kids. There really was a man long ago who is responsible for the story of Santa Claus by his generosity to the town's children. Jesus came to us to spread God's message of forgiveness and living together in spiritual harmony. They are both great gift givers and we make sure those gifts are not forgotten, but we encourage the continuation of the beliefs in both God and Santa!

I thought this was a very clever question and did not take it as sarcasm at all!

Answer 5

You should have numbered them.

God: no. Santa: no.
Is there... Yes. There are several.
Could we... Sure. Why the hell not?
Do people... yes they do, but they are never answered.
Do people... yes they do, and they are answered. Not by Santa, of course. So I should say of the above answer that prayer is sometimes answered, but not by God.
Is there... God exists? Nope.
Is there... Santa exists? Nope.
What is... Santa exists? Shock. But it's never happened.
What is... God exists? Well, it depends. Usually I feel nothing whatsoever.

Answer 6

answering from my own personal view
a creator does exist... Santa doesn't
yes there are such books
we could do one about Santa if you wished lol
people do ask for things in gods name , i don't
my prayers have been answered yes
my children generally get what they ask Santa for lol i don't ( not fair )
yes i believe there is empirical proof of god
not of Santa
yes i would find it amusing if someone said they believed in Santa
and no it wouldn't be amusing if they believed in god

Answer 7

Is there any evidence that they don't?

No, but that argument can be applied to anything, no matter how unfeasible, so that argument is crap.

The Bible is not good evidence, it's like saying 'Muslims are terrorists' and they upon being asked why replying 'My Dad told me so'.

And intelligent design and creationism are both completely laughable and pseudo-scientific, made only analysing a small proportion of the evidence (and surprisingly only that which agrees with their aims), and that evidence is usually grossly flawed, if not utter bull. It's modern day god of the gaps.

Answer 8

well, considering that we know santa doesnt exist, seeing as how he lives at the north pole, and explorers havent found this man or his toy factory, we can be pretty sure. he is fictional. if an adult thought he lived after knowing this, i would think they were a little 'slow' if ya know what i mean.
God on the other hand, doesnt live on this planet. he lives in a different universe, i can't think of the verse for this, but we can't be sure he doesnt exist, if we don't go and see he's there somewhere in another universe?

Answer 9

You know, I actually got alot of the things I asked Santa for. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 10

I know God exist and well that Santa Clause existence is parents fault. I ask for things when I pray and God gives them to me. I have to ask for thing that are reasonable and Gods does not grant my request it was meant for me to have it. God knows what's best for me.

Answer 11

You do realize, of course, that Santa Clause was inspired by a real person, right?

Saint Nicholas of Bari(or Turkey).