raymor

For many, this is true. Many others grow up and develop an adult understanding of who Saint Nick really was, and who or what God really is. These people can separate their five year old understanding from their adult understanding in both cases.

Few, upon learning that there are no flying reindeer, assume that means a mature understanding of Saint Nick is impossible. Yet, they decide that because their childish understanding of God was, well, childish, their must not be any adult understanding of the concept. Surely there is nothing they can learn. Whatever their understanding was at age five must be the only understanding they can ever have. How peculiar.