• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    On a related side note, Violent Night with David Harbour as Santa is a new holiday classic to me.

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      11 months ago

      I like the angle of “believing” because it’s fun but never really thinking he’s a real physical being.

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      11 months ago

      There’s a big difference. Zero sane adults actually believe in Santa.

      The Santa tradition, I think, teaches something very important to kids: that they are the ones who need to figure out what’s true and what’s not, even when that disagrees with what trusted authority figures say. Religion doesn’t do that, since there’s never a time when the curtain is pulled back on it.

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        since there’s never a time when the curtain is pulled back on it

        In antiquity maybe, but in modern times with access to information – Adulthood, that’s when one should have the mental faculties to understand that organized religion is a scam.

        It’s one thing to believe that there may be more than science can currently demonstrate or worlds we can’t access, it’s another to believe the stories organized religions are based on.

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          My point being that there are great numbers of adults people who still literally believe in the organized religion of their choice. Those people do not “pull back the curtain” for their children when they come of age; they continue to propagate the religion as truth.