2006-11-26 02:49:28 · 28 answers · asked by wolfe_tone43 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm afraid I'm an atheist - however Santa, the tooth fairy, Easter bunny, the boogeyman, etc. are still very much alive in our children's imaginations, & should not be proved otherwise, until they are old enough.
2006-11-26 03:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I stopped believing in god when I was 6, yet I still believed in Santa and Easter Bunny for a whole year to come.
2006-11-26 10:52:07 · answer #2 · answered by Poo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most people over the age of 8 stop believing in Santa and the Easter Bunny. I don't think there is too much of an overlap.
2006-11-26 10:52:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm a Christian and I do everything at Christmas to let my 4 children believe in Santa - even as far as getting my dad to dress up as Santa on Christmas Eve, walk round the block then come down the garden path with some 'early' pressies for them. I think it's absolutely magical to look forward to Santa coming on Christmas eve and putting out the whisky and mince pies for him and carrots for Rudolph!
The only problem is that my youngest son is only 3 and is absolutely terrified of Santa and throws an absolute screaming fit if he sees him!!
My oldest son is 12 now and stopped believing in Santa when he was about 8. He has never, ever stopped believing in Jesus because he knows He is totally real, loves Him to bits and has changed his life forever. That's something that 'Santa' could never give him!!
2006-11-26 15:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by Rakibear 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Santa and the bunny no, God I do believe
2006-11-26 10:59:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ha ha.
No, I don't believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny.
2006-11-26 10:51:01 · answer #6 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I've seen Santa & the Easter Bunny. Santa brings diamonds, the bunny brings candy and niether of them have every let me down! Cupid is really cool too! ; )
2006-11-26 10:59:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes, believers in god/gods still believe in santa and the easter bunny. as long before the advent of christianity christmas as it is known now was "yule". santa, along with all his other names, is connected spiritually to cdhristmas/yule. and the same applies to easter: easter is a pagan holiday as is yule. and the easter bunny is very spiritually symbolic of that. when christianity came along it distroyed or attempted to distroy the pagan practices by re-placing them with christian ones. ...and in the process claiming these and other pagan holidays as their own.
2006-11-27 14:12:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is much paganism in the holidays of christmas, easter, halloween, valentines day, and so forth. Yet the christian masses all over still celebrate these very days in the ignorance of the history behind them. I can break it down here for you but I would be here typing all day. Search out the knowledge for yourself.
There is a penalty for the celebrations of any days outside of the ones mentioned by the Most High, Yah all throughout scriptures. He had his feast days, now man has gone and created his own... Just as the poster above has mentioned.
2006-11-26 11:00:09 · answer #9 · answered by Repenting 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not believe in the sense of thinking they're real, or having some kind of "faith" in them. They used to be fun little secondary stories that made the holidays cute for the kiddies, but now they are such terrible commercial gimmicks, being used to distort the original meaning and purpose of celebrating Christmas, Easter, etc. It all comes down to making money these days. Disgusting.
2006-11-26 10:52:34 · answer #10 · answered by anna 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋