2007-05-10 07:04:05 · 10 answers · asked by ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I did believe in the tooth fairy and Santa when I was a child... and I believed in God, too. I believe in all of these things beacuse I was a child and my parents told me they were real.
As I grew up, I began thinking for myself and realized that these stories couldn't possibly be true... all of them, including god. He was made up to provide answers for what couldn't be explained way back when. Santa was made up to help kids behave and get presents and the tooth fairy was made up to provide a fun thing to look forward to after the pain of losing a tooth.
This is why it is vital that children not be told any of these falsehoods... no tooth fairy (but do the tooth in a tooth pillow having on the door and give them money for it anyway), no Santa (encourage kids to be good because it's the right thing to do, not because they'll get things) or god (science can explain it all... and we don't need heaven as a promise or hell as a threat in order to behave as we should).
2007-05-10 07:16:35 · answer #1 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians ultimately strengthen out of santa claus and the the teeth fairy. For some reason, even with the very incontrovertible fact that, they declare that their diverse fairy tale, god, isn't extremely a fairy merely like the others. Christians want to tell fairy comments. unusual, for the rationalization that they fake to be anti-gay.
2016-10-15 07:19:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never believed in the tooth fairy or santa claus.
2007-05-10 07:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christians eventually grow out of santa claus and the tooth fairy. For some reason, however, they claim that their other fairy story, god, is not really a fairy like the others. Christians like to tell fairy stories. Strange, since they pretend to be anti-homosexual.
2007-05-10 07:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by Fred 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Tooth fairy: 6. (I saw my dad put the quarter under my pillow.)
Santa/Easter Bunny: 7 or 8. I had my doubts earlier, but my mother really seemed to believe, and I didn't want to upset her.
God:13. If Santa had a church, he probably would have lasted this long too.
2007-05-10 07:08:26 · answer #5 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believed in Santa Claus until I found my presents ( a pair of socks and a Mars bar) hidden under my parent's bed a week before Christmas. I was about ten years old.
2007-05-10 07:07:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Never really believed in either. When I was eight, it became apparent that the biblical tales could not be reconciled with science, and since science is obviously right (it works!), the bible had to go. I have not uncovered any evidence of the existence of any sort of god -- and neither has anyone else.
2007-05-10 07:09:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not long at all actually, because I used to sneak around and wound up proving they didn't exist via logical progression of thought and catching the real "culprits" in the act. I think I was 5 or 6 when I figured it out.
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2007-05-10 07:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I knew they were both BS by the time I was 4, but I played along for the gifts and money until I was 9.
Mama didn't raise no dummies.
2007-05-10 07:06:46 · answer #9 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Um, wait...what are you telling me, here?
2007-05-10 07:06:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋