The Classic: "Yes, Virginia,There is a Santa Clause"

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
-Virginia O'Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age.

They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.

There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?

The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there.

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond.

Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

New Version

I am 8 years old. Some of my public school teachers tell me tell mey there is no Jesus Christ and if I ever mention his name again, they will get lawyers to sue me and my family. My John Kerry voting parents tell me, "If you see it in the left wing media, or from Michael Moore, then its true " Please tell me the truth, is there a Jesus Christ?
-Virginia O'Hanlon

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Virginia, your amajor idiot you know that?

Your going to believe that a "God" loved this miserable place so much that he would send his only son to die for our sins? Um, hello? I'm still sinning! Didn't fix much huh!

All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little, but yours is non-existant, so in order to even think of this, you must be retarded or rasied by Jerry Falwell snake kissing NAZI's.

In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, So Darwin wrote. You evolved from slime! Ignore the fact that its still not proven. We got the ACLU working on forcing it down your throat as a fact, so better prepare for it!

No Virgina, there isn't a Jesus. Never was! We know because were journalists and we are so much more smarter then a little retarded Zealot like yourself!

He was created by a bunch or traitorous Jews that wanted to be noticed. How can you believe anything by faith? Please! Bet you still believe in Santa Claus too huh? Get ready for a shock when you turn 10!

Believe in Jesus Christ? You might as well believe in fairies...the flying ones not the ones out of San Francisco.

Ever see Jesus? No? Well there you go! Pretty damn simple even for a moron kid like you!

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world, so there goes the God theory. We are an accident and theres no heaven. Deal with it! You die you rot!

No Jesus? Yep! Don't exist! So be a good girl and drop your faith and stop listening to these right-wing nut cases!

Sincerely

Dan Rather
America's Most Trusted Journalist!

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies.

Yeaahhh....I guess I'm convinced...

Actually, I've never understood why anyone pretends there is a Santa Claus. I don't mind giving gifts to family & friends, but why pretend some fat joker who lives in the North Pole with a bunch of elves gave them?

And what do you do when your kids find out? Shout, "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! - Joke's on you!"?

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