Expecially if you believe in God. The holidays are religious not for some made up characters... Also when teaching a child not to lie isn't that setting a bad example? Please don't answer tradition I don't believe in following a crowd.
2007-09-10 06:11:03 · 8 answers · asked by htpanther 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LOL Evolved I don't attend Church Get to know someone before assuming what the person is like.
2007-09-10 06:55:06 · update #1
Extend: I believe in God and if that's what I choose to believe it's not lying to my children just as you have the right to your opinions I have the right to my own...As far as proof that's not what I asked to begin with.
2007-09-10 07:56:11 · update #2
I mean Confirmed.
2007-09-10 07:57:43 · update #3
Even by losing the secularity of the holidays, if it is the Christian God you are talking about they are still lying to themselves and their children. Most of the holidays they celebrate our Pagan, not Christian, holidays, they just hijacked them.
Generally teaching a child not to lie is a good thing.
2007-09-10 06:17:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jett 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm with you on this one! Lying is lying...my son is six and I've never lied to him about Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the boogeyman or anything else.
...of course, I'm not convinced the holidays are religious...I'm well aware that Christmas and Easter are both pagan holidays that the church "christianized". ...and from my own experience, I even think I know how it happened. I was discussing the possibility that celebrating Christmas in any way was offensive to God and my dad was very resistant to the direction of my thoughts...quite quickly, he came to the argument that my son would feel like an outcast if he didn't get gifts like all his friends. Ah...peer pressure...makes it a lot easier to convert someone to your beliefs if you don't take away all the fun associated with their own...so let's just incorporate them.
Something about "following a crowd" bothers me too...not saying I've rejected Christmas and Easter celebrations, but I am currently seeking God's wisdom on this issue instead of trusting what I've been taught by others!
2007-09-10 13:31:47 · answer #2 · answered by KAL 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way I will be telling my children there is an easter bunny or santa claus. I totally agree.
2007-09-10 13:17:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't lie to my kid. He knows there is no Easter Bunny, Santa etc.
He knows he can ask me anything and I would never lie to him.
2007-09-10 13:18:56 · answer #4 · answered by Jenae, TV (tempter of the vile) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't believe in following a crowd? What do you think mindlessly following a church is?
2007-09-10 13:35:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's because all these holidays have pagan origin, so one lie begets another.
2007-09-10 13:19:08 · answer #6 · answered by Daysee 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol - so you have proof that god exists do you?
if not, then you're lying as well
i can offer as much proof that santa and the easter bunny exist then you can god
2007-09-10 13:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
for fun and celebration
2007-09-10 13:24:59 · answer #8 · answered by slopoke6968 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋