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Originally Posted by Mutt
now go to her bedroom and tell her Daddy just played a pretty mean joke on her and of course Santa Claus is real. it's probably a good time though to tell her that Jesus is a total crock of shit.
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Do you believe that? Saint Nick is in fact the patron saint of children. He did in fact leave gifts in people's shoes, which is where Christmas stockings come from. He lived in the fourth century. In Dutch, Saint Nicklaus is transliterated Sinterklaas (Sinterklaas = Santa Claus).
Small children visualize both Saint Nick and God as old men with beards who grant wishes. Most of us mature as we grow older and grow out of that point of view. A few of us assume that the childish point of view is the only possible way of thinking and therefore conclude that everything we don't fully understand is completely fake, except of course aliens.