Ok so you've told your kidd there is a Santa an Easter Bunny, and a tooth fairy. How can you expect them to beleive you when you tell them there is a god after you lied to your kids three times?
2006-12-15 03:49:49 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For the record I'm Atheist I'm just asking the religious people.
2006-12-15 03:52:48 · update #1
Actually, you make a very good statement. When u lie , how can little ones tell when u speak the truth? Those things u mention are all from pagan sources anyway. I had to laugh though, when some of the atheists assumed that you weren't one, intstead of just agreeing with your point.
2006-12-15 03:59:02 · answer #1 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I won't force them to believe it but I know that my life was so much more magical as a child with the belief in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the EAster Bunny. I still went to church and learned the real stroies behind Easter and Christmas, but those symbols were just more fun for me. I have never doubted God, even when my life was at rock bottom, just like I've never doubted the magic of Christmas or the simple beauty of Easter. It's all in what you believe and this is what I believe. My kids may not believe in God, and that's okay. It might not be for them, but it is for me.
2006-12-15 03:53:16 · answer #2 · answered by snowbaby 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't tell my children there is a Santa or an Easter Bunny because I know those are myths just created to cover the true meanings to those holidays. I believe Christmas is about the birth of Jesus and Easter is about the Resurrection. Now I understand that everyone isn't a Christian but you gotta love how people just want a reason to celebrate during the exact same times we're celebrating.
2006-12-15 03:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jeanelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This one is tricky... but maybe you could somehow correlate God to the fact that the 'real' Santa Claus was actually a saint – Saint Nicholas. (Taken from source below): "...his parents, who raised him to be a devout Christian, died in an epidemic while Nicholas was still young. Obeying Jesus' words to 'sell what you own and give the money to the poor,' Nicholas used his whole inheritance to assist the needy, the sick, and the suffering. He dedicated his life to serving God..." This will show your kid that the legend of Santa is based on the fact that he loved God and therefore wanted to share that love with others. I'm not sure how to address the bunny or the fairy, however.
It seems to me that you believe God is the one truth, so if you convey that to your kid, whom you love, and without pushing the issue too hard on them, they will grow up knowing God isn't a lie. "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he shall not depart from it." Prov. 22:6
OH NEVER MIND I JUST SAW THAT YOU'RE AN ATHEIST
2006-12-15 04:04:52 · answer #4 · answered by KJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not? After Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, pretending that there really is a god isn't much different. The fourth lie isn't really much different than the first three.
2006-12-15 03:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a true christian should not lie about that stuff, and your right a lot of people who say to be called Christians tell their kids that Santa and the Easter Bunny exist but that's just lies
when ever a person does that they are actually hurting God because God enemy is Satan and he was the first one to lie, and if they look at it this way, come on do you think God is happy because you told your kids such lie, and christmas is not even a christian think to some of them celebrate it because of getting together and giving gifts, but if you love the once you say you love there are other days that you can give them gifts not just wait until that day, and some they celebrate it because of Jesus birth but jesus was not born on december and he did never did told us to celebrate his birht he told his disciples to memorialize, or remember, his death. (Luke 22:19, 20) Christmas and its customs come from ancient false religions. The same is true of Easter customs, such as the use of eggs and rabbits. The early Christians did not celebrate Christmas or Easter, nor do true Christians today.
2006-12-15 05:37:18 · answer #6 · answered by Nancy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This answers it all my atheist friend
Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest man that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank GOD! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
2006-12-15 04:02:14 · answer #7 · answered by daanzig 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 1st question you ought to be asking is; Is Santa Claus a Christian concept? of direction all and sundry knows of the familiar St. Nicholas affiliation yet even previously that we've a Norse god Odin. Many declare that that's the muse of Santa Claus. a internet site clarify it greater effective "Germanic legends taught that each 12 months on the yuletide pageant (iciness solstice time) little ones ought to positioned out their boots with foodstuff in them for Odin's horse. In return Odin might leave presents for the little ones. With the arriving of the church to the Netherlands, the myth of God Odin replaced into altered to instead use the character of Saint Nicolas as component to the evolution of the pageant. With the appearance of the Dutch contained in the US contained in the nineteenth century, the pageant replaced into taken there the place it gradually grew to grew to become the present version of Santa Claus. The widespread popularisation of the favorite photograph looks to have ensue from Coca-Cola classified ads contained in the Nineteen Thirties." So Santa Claus as all of us comprehend him immediately is a mix of St. Nicholas, Odin, the Dutch and oddly adequate, Coca-cola incredibly than being a thoroughly christian concept.
2016-10-05 08:42:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have hoped that you told your child about God before those others. It is quite easy Santa, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy are all ideas that we believe in as parents for the enjoyment of our children. I still believe in Santa as a grown up. I love the idea of him and his message. God is completely different. If you have faith in God it is much, much different than faith in Santa or the tooth fairy
2006-12-15 03:53:09 · answer #9 · answered by Little anionyx 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lol .. good point. But then, cant god be like Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy - one just an idea for doing good?
2006-12-15 03:52:05 · answer #10 · answered by Yngona D 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋