Santa and God - the evidence is pretty clear...who do YOU believe in?

Question

Most kids stop believing in Santa when they are between 6 and 10 years old, yet there is lots of evidence that Santa exists, there are lots of pictures, he has lots of people who represent him dressed as him, you can go and visit him in Lapland, Reindeers are real, most homes wake on a christmas morning with evidence of his visit (apart from those on Merseyside that were cleared out by burglars).

Yet we dismiss Santa at a very early age.

But...God has none of these things in his favour, all we have is an old book written 1000s of years ago, and yet people steadfastly believe.

Now I am clearly not saying I believe in Santa, but I am simply pointing out what many people will see as a logical link between the two beliefs, and how daft they both are.

Isn't it time you god fearing folk all grew up and started to focus on more important things, imagine what we could acheive in the world if instead of raising funds for church matters, we raised funds to feed to poor? Get a grip.

Don, interesting, how come you managed not to crash the car during this amazing event?

Answer 1

Are you telling me.. that santa.. does not exist? *sniff* *sniff*

Answer 2

Santa is dismissed because moms & dads finally confess that they are really "Santa". No one who started out believing in Santa just stopped believing for no reason.

I can appreciate what you said about the money/church/feed the poor thing...I totally agree. When churches stop building themselves up as "fortresses", then the real work of the church can begin: Feed the poor, educate the ignorant, clothe those in need and love everyone unconditionally.

I also think that you are misusing this forum to denegrate and brow beat people of faith. You should find another forum for doing this. This page should be used for people who seek real answers, not people who write down hurtful things and get some sort of thrill from it.

I really think you are searching for answers or you wouldn't take the time to do this...just come clean and be serious about it.

Peace.

Answer 3

Good point about how much money could be spent on other things besides the church. To play devil's advocate (no pun intended), I think a lot of people would argue that the money put into the church helps to create more moral and giving people, which in turn is doing more good for the communities.

I think people believe in God for a variety of reasons. One of them is that some people need a God figure in their life to be hopeful about the future. Some people would live a pretty bleak existence knowing that there is not an afterlife or an all-powerful being who can make things right. I myself feel that thinking that there is no afterlife make a person celebrate each day because that is all they are guaranteed. I think that this can lead to a more satisfying life.

I think a lot of people also believe in God because they must feel like they can right their own wrongs through prayer and his forgiveness (So I do cocaine and I cheat on my girlfriend, but I have been going to church since I was born so it is okay).

I know I am making huge generalizations about those who believe in God, but my experiences have led me to encounter many of these types.

Answer 4

Are you I......?Santa Claus was made by man while God exist without beginning and no ending.

The story about Santa is just an story for the low mental class person specially for the kids during the christmas day of the catholics. As if you are on that class of mentality if you believe it from some people yet you do not believe God and the bible. What kind of person do you belong. You have a very narrow mind . widen it.
jtm

Answer 5

" There is lots of evidence that Santa exist" Well, in that case you could say Spongebob Squarepants exist. There are lots of pictures, there are people that dress like him, and I think you can even go "visit" him at his home at nickelodeon studios. Shoot, he even stars in his own show and is a supporter of such fine eateries like the Burger King. I think he is best friends with the "King." But, Santa didn't die for my sins and when I die I am not going to go live with Santa in the North Pole. Spongebob Squarepants hasn't died for anyone's sins, when I die I am not going to go live with him forever on the bottom of the ocean. I have never had a spiritual experience involving Santa and Spongebob. Jesus DID die for my sins and rose again 3 days later and I have experienced the Holy Spirit. So you see, there is a big difference.

How do you know what the church does with their money? I happen to know for a fact that my church gave over 200,000 dollars overseas last year for hunger and I know that they gave countless dollars away to other missions around the world. The church does plenty good.

Answer 6

There's much more than a book to support God exists. The whole creation around us and the impossibility of it. The fact that humans even have a desire to have a God at all, and tend to have a moral code of right and wrong inside themselves. Where would that have come from if we evolved from nothing and why, if it wasn't proof of God? What about all the supernatural experiences (angelic intervention, demonic activity, talking to the dead, etc.) over our past history that show there is more than this physical existence? To me, those prove there is a God, apart from the fact of the Bible.

Answer 7

>Isn't it time you god fearing folk all grew up <

Well, I'm 37 and I've grown up - I am also a Christian and I see the world for what it really is - fading and full of lies and deceit! If anybody has to grow up it's non Christians who think everything is OK in the world - they live in cloud cuckoo land not Christians!

As for raising funds for churches - you obviously haven't heard of TEARFUND! They have been going for over 30 years and they had FAIRTRADE then! They have helped the poor for a lot longer than Tescos, Sainsburys etc (who have only just started selling fairtrade goods). TEARFUND gives far more money to poor people than any of these huge supermarkets do!

Do your research before using dumb sweeping statements - and you say it's people who believe in God who need to grow up...

Answer 8

The Santa myth is easy to dismiss as it is far less credible as the God myth, so most people dismiss the Santa fiction at a very early age, but most people, who were raised to believe in the God myth, do not seem to be able to dismiss that myth so easily, and adhere to that all their life.

Answer 9

You are so right, but is easier to believe in Santa and learn that he does not exist than find out that God does not exist.But we just cannot believe God to do everything.It´s the human raise who has to do good things for other people who need help more than we do and by doing so we come nearer God, of course only if you believe in Him.

Answer 10

why do people have self belief in God with out data, yet won't have self belief interior the teeth Fairy or Santa? ok. little ones have self belief interior the teeth Fairy and Santa Claus, real? nicely, interior the Bible, God says to get carry of the middle of a baby and have self belief in Him and have faith Him as a baby does his or her mothers and dads. little ones have self belief very just about each and every little thing their mothers and dads say. So if their mothers and dads informed them the teeth Fairy replaced into actual, that they had have self belief it. If their mothers and dads informed them that Santa replaced into actual, that they had have self belief it. If their mothers and dads informed them that God replaced into actual, that they had have self belief it. consequently motives why God suggested, "I permit you recognize the fact, until you regulate and alter into like little little ones, you will in no way enter the dominion of heaven." (Matt. 18:3. look it up). so because it relatively is motives why we've self belief in God. yet we've each and every of the data interior the international to have self belief it. we are respiration, are not we?

Answer 11

there is one thing the Santa experience does not have: the unseen, unexplained in human words spirit of God working in and moving through the hearts and souls of human beings.

It doesn't come from a book and it doesn't come from going to church or any of that.