Posted on 12/09/2019 7:20:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Comparing telling kids to Santa is justified because it’s OK to lie to a Nazi?
Really?????
We never told our kids that Santa existed. They are just fine for it.
I raised my sons telling them every year the world joins in and plays a ‘pretend’ game about Santa Clause which everyone greatly enjoys...... But most importantly they were taught the real meaning of this greatest of Holidays..the Birth of our Savior.
Yes, I did that as well.......it worked very well for my sons. like the easter Bunny and other make believe stories we pretend...they never questioned rather just enjoyed it all fully.
Yes, I did that as well.......it worked very well for my sons. like the easter Bunny and other make believe stories we pretend...they never questioned rather just enjoyed it all fully.
I think children should have a childhood and believe in childish things. And then they should eventually grow up.
One problem today is that children don’t grow up. They re-name Santa Claus and call him Socialism, but they still believe.
I am not opposed to having Santa as a part of childhood but eventually telling young people, “That stuff is make believe. Life doesn’t work like that.”
“The Christmas Chronicles” answered several of the questions posed. I highly recommend it.
As a youngster, I was absolutely immersed in the magic that was Christmas! Everything was magical... glitter, glue, pine cones, holly and berries, snowflakes, winter, parades, Santa on the fire truck, cookies, food, Christmas songs, gift exchanges, Christmas trees, toy store windows, “A Christmas Carol”, the list goes on and on... And as I aged, I learned what was really going on as was bound to happen... but never, not in a million years would I ever selfishly attempt to persuade anyone, anywhere to teach disbelief, or in any other way to counter or destroy the joy and happiness of a child’s hopes for or their belief in Santa or Christmas!
I have five grandchildren, three of them I’ve raised, and my partial list above is always Christmas for them. I’ve had the talk with my grandsons who are late teens, that they’d better keep thier pie-holes shut around my five year old grandaughter who is, like I was at her age, absolutely immersed in the magic of Christmas!
Don’t even come around my house spewing any bilge about how you were victimized or abused, and your life was ruined and you don’t feel like it’s right, and that it’s wrong to lie to kids... blah blah blah...
Christmas in it’s entirety is celebrated in my home, and it will be until I’m no longer around to celebrate it. To all of you who would “pooh-pooh” on Christmas...
Here’s wishing you and yours’ a very Merry Christmas!
Really? How unkind of him. Not even Trump would do that to Adam Schiff....
At the Council of Nicea (AD325) Arius denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, Nicholas clocked him, they put St Nick in prison, Jesus came that night and let him out.
Obviously those in Heaven are all saints but the Church sometimes canonizes people whose witness was in some way remarkable. They have canonized abused women, recovered alcoholics, pious parents, etc., in other words very ordinary people who cleaved to God through trials. This is done as an example to all of us that, no matter the circumstance, holiness is our goal.
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