The Trouble with Christmas

[infinitehumanstupid]

What's wrong with Satan... no sorry Santa .. or other fairytales? I would say nothing if people understood they are fairytales... but that's not the case. There are those who want to teach everybody's kids that man and T-rex were happily on a boat together... and they are willing to go to court to force their will on everybody else.

[AssemblyXX]

10 Contemporary authorities who defend the Santa myth on psychotherapeutic grounds fail to make a convincing case.

[infinitehumanstupid]

@AssemblyXX psychotherapy itself is quite questionable... on scientific grounds that is.

[AssemblyXX]

6 Santa myth harms childrens cognitive and emotional development and damages family dynamics.

7 Santa myth stunts moral development because it encourages children to judge themselves globally, as good or bad persons, rather than to judge positive or negative behavior.

8 The myth promotes selfish and acquisitive attitudes among children.

9 Children may not enjoy the Santa drama as much as parental nostalgia suggests.

[AssemblyXX]

1 To teach and perpetrate the Santa Claus myth, parents must lie to their children.

2 The Santa myth exploits characteristic weakness in young childrens thinking, perhaps obstructing their passage to later stages of cognitive development.

3 To buoy belief, adults stage elaborate deceptions, laying traps for the childs developing intellect.

4 The myth encourages lazy parenting & promotes unhealthy fear.

5 Number of characteristics that Santa shares with God & Jesus verges on the blasphemous.

[jacero10]

Actually, most of the new immigrants are Catholics. And, hello, they celebrate Christmas.

If you don't want to celebrate, Christmas, just dont celebrate Christmas.

As far as the emotional experience of a minority. Well, no one can save you from that.