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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't spend Christmas together and not have this be a problem. Santa's a big part of the Christmas celebration (as opposed to the religious background of the holiday, obviously).[/quote]

So, for you, Santa is more important than the fact that Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ?  That just seems so backwards to me.  [/quote]

To not understand that for small children Santa is a larger part of Christmas than the Jesus part is kind of willfully naive. I grew up with them all intertwined but on Christmas morning I was a little more focused on my presents then on Church.

Also a LOT of people celebrate a secular Christmas that has nothing to do with the religious aspects. Its not that hard to grasp.

Another also, for a lot of families (mine included) Christmas was as much about spending time together and creating holiday traditions and 'magic' as it was about the religious aspect. [b]That meant making sure Santa wasn't an afterthought[/b]. [/quote]
What?! You can't have traditions or make memories without Santa??[/quote]

That's what it meant in our house. It could mean something different in other houses. My point was that people can focus on holiday traditions and magic that aren't directly related to the religious aspects of the holiday and that prioritizing them isn't like, snubbing Jesus. [/quote]

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