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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't tell from your post, but do you actually celebrate Christmas?  [b]If you don't believe in God, yet celebrate Christmas[/b], I don't see how adding Santa to the mix is so terrible.[/quote]

These are contradictory positions. You know this, right? Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It's not a secular holiday. It takes some really serious cognitive dissonance to profess no belief in God and then celebrate Christmas. A belief that Jesus is the son of God is the baseline for all of this, even the sillier secular traditions that go along with it (and which I see no harm in). You really can't cherrypick this stuff.[/quote]

Do you know that Jesus was probably born in the summer, not the winter? Do you know that most Christian holidays were positioned in the calendar where they are to cover up the pagan holidays of the time?  You can definitely celebrate the Christmas Holiday with Santa without believing the religious version of Christ that is part of it.  We've taught our DD that Jesus was an amazing profit with ideas far ahead of his time that we think are wonderful.  But we don't believe he is the actual son of a man floating in the sky birthed of a virgin mother.  But we've also told her that some people do believe that (all of her relatives do) and we want her to learn about all different religions and ideas and make her own conclusions about what she believes.  As for the Santa part, we both loved the magic as kids and will let her enjoy it as long as she can.  This may be one of the last years (she's 7) =([/quote]

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