2006-12-20 13:49:42 · 15 answers · asked by evan e 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Of course he is!!!
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
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
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical 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 as 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 external light with 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 you 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 men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, 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 lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!
2006-12-20 14:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jim I 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sort of..St Nicholas was real and he was turned into Santa Claus by Coca Cola for one of it's original sales campaigns....in the 30's , I think.
Don't forget that the original Coca Cola had cocaine in it, making it a much zippier product. Santa was a happnin guy!
2006-12-20 14:05:01 · answer #2 · answered by Gnome S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa, no. St. Nick, yes. He was a Turkish Bishop, who would secretly give gifts to people.
2006-12-20 13:58:22 · answer #3 · answered by Ameen A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
santa is real for only those who believe in him. others cant ever see him because he stops being real to them
2006-12-20 13:53:11 · answer #4 · answered by *chicka_chicka_boom_boom* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, St. Nicholas was a real person. A church bishop, who was generous and gave gifts. But I don't feel like cut and pasting the whole encyclopedia summary.
My mother in law used to tell her kids "If you don't believe you don't receive"
They always believed
2006-12-20 13:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am sorry for me to tell you this but i got to brake it down to you.
dont ever ask that dum *** question any more santa is real. yeah real fake.
2006-12-20 13:59:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ABSOLUTLY NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU GET!!! It's all in the spirit and mind set!!!
2006-12-20 13:53:20 · answer #7 · answered by jillifly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he's alive in the media
2006-12-20 14:08:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how do i say this nicely? im sorry but i dont think so
2006-12-20 13:52:25 · answer #9 · answered by paramore rules 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make yourself happy, if you want to believe.
2006-12-20 13:52:48 · answer #10 · answered by fabee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋