A post on Santa - but first… another thing to support my view on veils

In case you havn’t guessed from the above link today I’m on the Daily Express, I bought one this morning having had a toenail removed and a couple of things stood out, the second was this article

Link (I couldn’t find it on the Expres website so it’s a Daily Mail link and I’m very sorry for that!)

So, for those who couldn’t face the daily mail website the general story is that a teacher gave out some worksheets to her year 5’s saying that every year the Post Office responds to thousands of letters to Santa and they had to write a letter as if they were writing it as the post office to a child which sounds like a good exercise to me, however some of the kids then questioned why the post office needed to respond and santa couldn’t and the teacher said he didn’t exist reducing some of the kids to tears, one parent said ‘I can’t believe they would teach this, it has taken the magic out of Christmas’.

Naturally I put on my Christian hat here and think that Santa is not what’s magic about Christmas, and I think as I seem to become an old scrooge I see the idea of Santa as a bad one, yes, Saint Nick was a good guy and it’s worth remembering what he did and perhaps he is in heaven but it’s insane to believe he is still alive and it distracts kids from God, they get more excited about seeing Santa and stockings than the Nativity story.

I think the other huge issue I have with it is the concept of lying to your kids and deceiving them, the bible says lying is wrong (hehe the song in the background atm is ‘Lies’ by Billy Talent), and I think it’s completely wrong for parents to be lying and deceiving their kids and I don’t think it’s something I’ll do when I’m a parent, I believe God calls us to be honest, and I don’t think I go with the Santa thing, they should be more excited about Jesus, he’s way better than some old guy who goes into small children’s rooms! (There’s a creepy concept!!!)

(btw this wasn’t pondering 2)