“My best friend grew up believing in Santa and was absolutely devastated when she learned that the people she trusted the most had lied to her. She could not understand how they would do that to her and set up in her mind the question of what else they may have lied to her about.”
Your best friend has bigger issues, and frankly sounds about as loony as some SJW.
Not necessarily. Many children feel that devastation finding out their parents lied to them about things they held dear - Santa, the Easter Bunny, tooth fairy.
Adults underestimate the amount of blind trust our children put in us.
Man, I’d like to see this article rewritten along the lines of “ do we, as Christians lie when we tell our wives that the jeans they are wearing do not make there butts look big “.
She learned that when she was a child over 50 years ago.
Why blame a child for a chldlike reaction?