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Christmas films, and references to Santa.
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I've noticed that an awful lot of Christmas films make reference to the non existence of a very important festive entity when watching them. When watching them with my 7 year old child I find myself cringing and waiting for the inevitable questions, but thusfar they have never come, what gives?
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It's a game that all children play with their parents, a sort of double bluff, the child knows by 7 that there is no Santa but chooses to play along with the parents. It's a sort of double delusion that both sides play. I can remember the first time I was aware of Santa and with a few minutes I'd deduced that it was a load of pony but let my parents believe that I believed for years after that.
I was the same situation for me with religion, pity it isn't for everyone.
I was the same situation for me with religion, pity it isn't for everyone.
Who's zoomin' who? If you don't believe these alleged 'harmless, innocent' forms of deception have consequences down the road, when these children become teens and begin their struggle for independence, then you are only deceiving yourself.
Faith blinds one not only to reason but to the awareness that faith itself is the enemy conveniently cloaked in the disguise provided by its advocates and inevitable victims of their own undoing. With any luck these children will learn from this a valuable lesson in the virtues of honesty and in whom they can trust, which can be applied throughout their lifetime. Alternatively they will themselves become carriers and distributors of this insidious and dreadful social and intellectual disease.
Sooner or later, reality ultimately shines through proclaiming itself as the victor. Ones only choice in this matter is whether or not to find oneself on the winning side. One one knowingly chooses to be a loser. They just get there by playing the part.
Faith blinds one not only to reason but to the awareness that faith itself is the enemy conveniently cloaked in the disguise provided by its advocates and inevitable victims of their own undoing. With any luck these children will learn from this a valuable lesson in the virtues of honesty and in whom they can trust, which can be applied throughout their lifetime. Alternatively they will themselves become carriers and distributors of this insidious and dreadful social and intellectual disease.
Sooner or later, reality ultimately shines through proclaiming itself as the victor. Ones only choice in this matter is whether or not to find oneself on the winning side. One one knowingly chooses to be a loser. They just get there by playing the part.
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