Table Talk: Talking HONESTLY about SANTA.
Santa is an amalgam. A flux of personalities and legends, from church history, from pagan religions and maybe even from clever marketing strategies, and from the fertile mind of an American poet, – ’Twas the night before Christmas” was published in a book by CC Moore in 1844. But, if it’s only a myth, what’s the harm? What harm will it do to give the kids a little bit of magic and sparkle once a year? After all, we tell them fairy stories about Hansel and Gretel, the ‘Cow Jumped Over the Moon’ etc etc.
But Santa is an insidious and evil myth. There’s two reasons why; firstly, that Santa the Myth presents himself as a counterfeit of God, and secondly, that what we teach our kids about Santa is suspiciously like a religion.
Listen to the Podcast, and let's think HONESTLY about what we are telling our children.
Read the NOTES HERE.
Music: "Attention Shoppers" by Jonathan Geer Licensed from www.NeoSounds.com
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