2006-12-21 10:33:02 · 12 answers · asked by Brandon W 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
He is not a real person but he is more of the holiday spirit.
2006-12-21 10:40:09 · answer #1 · answered by bluedevils2302 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he is just someone we made up to entertain children with in the spirit of St. Nicolas who was a real person. He was a saint who gave gifts and such to people, so that's where we came up witht he idea of a fake guy called Santa Claus. The true meaning and point of Christmas of course is not Santa and his reindeer bringing presents, but the gift of love and grace given to us in the birth of the Christ child the first Christmas day. Without that event, even if you're not a Christian, we would never celebrate Christmas in the first place. But, no, Santa isn't real, he's just a much celebreted fictional character.
2006-12-21 10:43:02 · answer #2 · answered by loving_Christ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES
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.
2006-12-21 10:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by DCON 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I do not think Santa is real, he would have to be able to travel at over 200,000 million miles per second to be able to deliver present to all the good children. He would have to use some form of magic... Yet i believe magic does or at least used to exist, I don't think he exists, but I have to try over Christmas for my younger cousins.
2006-12-21 10:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by Curtis C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I don't think santa is real but i still tell my younger siblings he is so there is this hope and christmas spirit in out home.
2006-12-21 10:41:16 · answer #5 · answered by out of it 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is, but there is a Government conspiricy saying he doesn't, and what they have done to prove he doesn't is: They found his toy factory in some remote corner of the North Pole, and bombed it, they then slaughtered his Reindeer and burned his sleigh, they also took the elves and tortured them (Pulled their teeth out, connected some electrons to them) and are now waiting for Santa to hand himself in.
2006-12-21 10:44:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. Santa isn't real, Tooth fairy isn't, God and gods aren't. So many people believe in a false reality. So much delusion and deception out there.
2006-12-21 17:17:12 · answer #7 · answered by freethinker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PPLZ WHO DON'T BELIEVE DON'T RECEIVE..........SANTA IS REAL IN SOME HEARTS BUT IN SOME HE IS NOT AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT DON'T RECEIVE.........TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH I'M A BELIEVER AND I'M 22.
2006-12-21 11:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by MONKEY_LOVER_1994 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but the "original" St. Nikolaus was
2006-12-21 11:00:54 · answer #9 · answered by Bella Donna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you below the age of 10? If so, I'll hold in my laughs!
2006-12-21 10:42:42 · answer #10 · answered by mr_sizzelin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋