Christmas time again

"He See's you when your sleeping. He knows when your awake. He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake." Who else does this sound like? As Christmas time rolls around we are all singing songs, baking cookies, running around buying presents, but if you don't mind taking a few seconds I would like to poke at your brain.



If we compare Santa and Christ we find many common factors, charity, love, compassion, punishment for being bad, reward for being good, they both see everything we do, and they both lived at one point in time. Yet one of these we stop believing in some time as a child. What if you took a young child who knew all about Santa, and nothing about Christ and put him away from all other people so he was never told Santa doesn't exist. He would wait for Santa on that first Christmas and be extremely disappointed when there was no present sitting under a tree for him. He would believe he was a bad child, and probably cry. The next year would be the same, as well as the year after that. He would grow up either hating Santa, or he would decide that Santa never existed.



How easily can that be transferred over to understand people who either hate god or don't believe he exists. After so many years of praying, and asking for help, only to be left helpless, even the most faithful can start to doubt and loose faith. The question is how many days, months, or years of waiting would it take for you to loose faith? (and if you answer never, you are lying to your self)


The funny thing about religion is how picky people can be about such small things. Every one believes in a Santa with a red suit and hat. Well, What if some people believed he dressed in blue? The idea of Santa is the same, the person is the same, yet in religion that would be a big enough difference that it could literally tear apart a family, and o' my what if his elf's were really midgets. It may seem silly or even stupid, but non the less it can cause blind ignorant hatred.

What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't matter what color the Santa suit is, it's the message that the man represents. Who cares if they are both are made up, who cares if both are real. Does it really matter if we say merry Christmas, happy holidays or happy Hanukkah? The idea or message is the same, love each other, be kind and all will be well.



Merry Christmas, and my Santa fill your stocking to the top.

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