by w4tvq » December 23rd, 2008, 1:33 pm
Actually, I was taught to believe in Santa, but I do not think I ever did; I suspected from the start that it was a game, and so I played it.
I was also taught to believe in God, but my home was a religion-free zone; as a teenager I decided to visit a church, and became enamored of high-church Anglicanism. That began what I did not know at the time was a lifelong search for God, like a long journey through the Anglican, Luteran, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic and Unity churches. Finally I gave it up, and then He came and revealed Himself to me. Surprisingly, He led me back to the Anglican church, but what matters to me now is not church so much as He Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Santa is a demigod, a "God substitute" for a society devoid of hope in God, a symbol of the societal belief that acquisition of more "stuff" makes for happiness.
Or so it seems to me.
Pax Domini
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