Ok.
We all know that many children are inclined to believe in Santa
Some children never believe in Santa. They look at the presents and notice that Santa's handwriting looks just like grandma's.
Santa believers look at the name on the card, see it is exactly what they wanted and say it must be from Santa.
Some adults look at the Bible and notice that God's words look just like human words.
Others see where it says it is the word of God, see it says exactly what they want it to and think it must be the word of God.
Is there a correlation?
2007-03-23 02:43:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, sorry, no correlation really. First off, St. Nicholas was a real person, he just isn't alive anymore, but in a way Santa is real. Also, the Bible doesn't say what anyone wants it to say. If we humans could have it our way, we would have the Bible say "You can sin as much as you want, go out and have a good time and do what ever you feel is right for you". The Bible doesn't say what people want it to say, it tells us how we should live, how we fail every time, and how God forgives us if we come to him. Also, the Bible is written by men's hands, but God used men to write his word. Men couldn't have prophecied all that they did. Over 300 prophecies were made 700 years before they happened, and they all came true. How on earth could human beings do that? Also, all the men who wrote the Bible were writting about the same things even though they wrote many years apart and from different cultures.
To be honest, if the Santa thing worked like the God thing,
Santa would be real, he would have all these powers, and the little notes on the presents would be in elf hand writting instead of Grandma hand writting. Thanks for reading, God bless.
2007-03-23 02:55:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
At least Santa is so easily proved to be made up by people. They are both ways to educate the children. They served well for a while. Yet parents can eventually tell the children about Santa being a fictional character. Religions are keeping such a strong hold that they are not even righteous anymore.
2007-03-23 10:07:20 · answer #2 · answered by ShanShui 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Possibly. I dismissed the idea of Santa in my kindergarten year, and I started kindergarten almost a year early.
I was a a-santa-ist before I was even five years old. By the time the next Christmas rolled around, my family had dropped the pretext entirely.
2007-03-23 09:47:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can oddly relate to this question. I was raised Catholic, but never believed any of it. It never made any sense. I thought Jesus was just a story we were to learn from, like fables, not someone I was supposed to really believe in.
I had a similar experience with Santa. I never believed in Santa. I thought it was just a fun tradition that people just SAID it was Santa and that they believed, but I knew it was Mom and Dad. I never realized I was supposed to actually believe in Santa.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that people actually did believe these things were real. I have always seen this as an odd comparison that really strikes home.
2007-03-23 09:50:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In some ways, possibly.
I believed in Santa until I was 4 because my mom told me he was real. She also told me god was real. But then I caught her putting the presents under the tree, and I knew santa wasn't real.
But the spirit of santa...the idea of giving to reward good behavior is a good idea.
The spirit of god, well you either do as he says or to hell with ya. Not such a good idea.
2007-03-23 09:50:46 · answer #5 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you've hit the nail right on the head. religion is fine and dandy until you start to question it. that's when you realize that it doesn't make as much sense as you thought it did. why did god not want adam and eve to eat from the tree of knowledge? because they might see the man behind the curtain.
21st century knowledge is the downfall of religion. people are so much more educated these days that they don't always need religion to explain the mysteries of the universe, science is doing that.
i'm not saying religion is bad, because it does help some people lead a good life with good morals for fear of not pleasing god and going to hell. let's just see it for what it really is.
2007-03-23 09:50:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Reminds me of the arguments I used to have with my mother because I managed to disprove "Santa's" involvement in christmas.... and her resultant insistence that the Tooth Fairy was still real though.
In retrospect she was probably still just mocking me with sarcasm.... but at the time I was rather frustrated that she could be so stupid as to believe something like that.
Then of course I learnt that she didn't..... BUT I learnt that many people, adults and children alike, believed in something far more ridiculous.
Heck... when I got a circle of friends at Penglais.... I had to perform Anti-Baptisms on quite a few of them to reverse the harmful effect of being baptised as babies.
2007-03-23 09:48:49 · answer #7 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have a better question:
Is there is a correlation between Sho-Nuff and stupid questions?
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2007-03-23 12:03:42 · answer #8 · answered by YRofTexas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some maybe..but I still believe in Santa...he's a jolly old fellow who is quite giving. God....not so much.
2007-03-23 09:47:35 · answer #9 · answered by ste.phunny 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nah, I've never heard of anyone having a real life-changing encounter w/ Santa, outside of the movies
2007-03-23 11:07:45 · answer #10 · answered by wanda3s48 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋