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Tiffi shares with Elsa and everyone else an article that she finds online.
‘There is an argument I hear all the time. I hear it in both the real world and in the fantasy world of the internet, from my friends and from my co-workers, from atheists and from Muslims: there is no such thing as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny. Many times, one of these groups, usually the atheists will add god to their list of things they don’t believe in (but that’s another topic).
The core argument unbelievers make is that Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny aren’t real. A man in a sleigh with flying reindeers and a fairy that brings you money for your teeth as you sleep are unbelievable. As for the rabbit that lays eggs, biologically impossible. What they fail to add to their argument is that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are all creations of the secular world.
Their world!
World renown evolutionary biologist and author as well as a member of the Four Horsemen of Atheism, Richard Dawkins will have none of that: Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy are part of the charm of childhood. So is God. Some of us grow out of all three. (Third Way Magazine, June 2003, p. 5)
As for the Tooth Fairy, this has no ties to Christianity and how nonbelievers link it to Christianity is beyond me.
But if they argue that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny aren’t real, which they aren’t, then I must ask: Do they let their children watch cartoons? Do they let their children watch Disney animated features?
There’s Bugs Bunny, a rabbit that walks and talks like a human. Bugs can play the piano, banjo, and guitar and sing opera! What about Daffy Duck? A duck that can do everything that Bugs Bunny can.
Then there’s Mickey Mouse. He can talk, sing, dance. He even has his own radio station, tv channel, and theme parks all over the world. Even a girlfriend! Peppa Pig? A talking pig much like Porky. He has talking friends such as dogs, cats, ducks, giraffe, and others.
I could give hundreds of examples.
If anything, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny as well as animated cartoons builds a child’s imagination.
As far as Christmas and Easter goes, there are two Christmas’ and two Easters’: A secular holiday and a Christian holiday. It’s the secular versions of these holidays which created Santa and the Easter Bunny. The Christian holidays of Easter and Christmas has no ties to these icons although there was a saint who lived during the Roman Empire in the Greek city of Myra who was known as Saint Nicholas of Myra.
It’s very apparent that when somebody claims that the Easter Bunny or Santa isn’t real they are showing their ignorance on the subject. Whether it’s an atheist or an agnostic, whether it’s Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, or whether it’s just your college philosopher Professor, when they make that claim please don’t laugh out loudly.’ (Source)
Santa gets the biggest smile on his face and gives the thumb up.
Let’s continue - Why did we lose these beliefs?
Start at the beginning – A story about childhood imagination and make believe