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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you need to think more about the Santa Claus metaphor.  Is Santa Claus real?  Of course he is.  He is me and every other parent who is Santa Claus.  Just because he is not the kind of person who can be killed, who has one single body, does not mean he is either a metaphor or that he does not exist.  He clearly exists.  His actions are entirely predictable.  They take the same form everywhere.   He is not just a metaphor, as he really delivers the gifts.  He is not just parents play acting.  Why on earth would parents all over the world play act like this?  Even parents who are not Christian do it.  It is not just culture.  It is not just peer pressure.  It is not just not wanting to disappoint your children.

Some things are real even if they are not corporal and even if they were created.[/quote]

You are conflating the concept of Santa with the Santa as described by fairy tale, these are not the same thing. Sure the concept of Santa is very real, but the the fairy tale Santa Claus is said to live in the north pole and have a team of elves and several flying reindeers, including one with a glowing nose. I have not seen any proof that there is someone who live in the north pole with a team of elves and flying reindeers. The fairy tale Santa Claus almost certainly does not exist - I don't know with absolute certainty, but there's no satisfactory evidence that he exists.

Now personally, it doesn't really make much of a difference that Santa Claus is only a metaphor, life goes on. Everyone is happy. But Christianity is not claiming a metaphor of God, but an actual existing God. A God who created our universe, as opposed to some natural process; made us in his image, as opposed to the process of evolution; gave us the commandment that he is the only God we should serve, as opposed to be free thinkers to follow other sources of moral guidance; and who will upon death damn us to eternal hell fire unless we accept Jesus as savior, as oppose to just becoming a decomposing biological heap of nothing. To satisfactorily explain this God as nothing but a metaphor, you'll have to explain the relevant and useful illustrated by each of these points.

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