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Santa is white. Is it wrong?

heyhey said:
Santa clause is definitely more real in my home than Jesus. I am an atheist but I'm not militant about it. We do celebrate a secular christmas. My daughter only gets clothes from Santa though. I can't give him credit for the good gifts.

It makes me curious. Does Santa play a larger role than Jesus during christmas in religious households as well?
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seems like it to me, except maybe in the south. In my house, Christmas was about Christmas, and church was about Jesus. They had Jesus stuff at church and all, but other than reading the christmas story from the bible on christmas eve, Christmas was more about food and presents than Jesus or Santa.
 
Siro said:
No there isn't. There is SOME evidence he may have existed, but I wouldn't call it plenty.

Either way, I'm not getting to the debate of whether Jesus is real AGAIN. I stopped getting into religious topics as I don't enjoy all the neg reps. :D
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If you think that there is plenty of evidence that people like Alexander the Great, Muhammed, Julius Caesar, etc existed, then there is plenty of evidence to show that Jesus existed. It is not a religious thing to say that he existed as a person.
 
b_line said:
If you think that there is plenty of evidence that people like Alexander the Great, Muhammed, Julius Caesar, etc existed, then there is plenty of evidence to show that Jesus existed. It is not a religious thing to say that he existed as a person.
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There a not-insignificant percentage of people (I've heard in the 20-35% range) who study the classical age that think Jesus did not exist. By contrast, there is a negligible percentage for Alexander and Julius Ceasar. I agree it's not a religious thing, but the evidence does not rise to the level of "plenty".
 
Siro said:
No there isn't. There is SOME evidence he may have existed, but I wouldn't call it plenty.

Either way, I'm not getting to the debate of whether Jesus is real AGAIN. I stopped getting into religious topics as I don't enjoy all the neg reps. :D
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Beantown neg you too? Maybe we should placate him with some pictures of someone's wife or sister or girlfriend or mom or whatever.
 
One Brow said:
There a not-insignificant percentage of people (I've heard in the 20-35% range) who study the classical age that think Jesus did not exist. By contrast, there is a negligible percentage for Alexander and Julius Ceasar. I agree it's not a religious thing, but the evidence does not rise to the level of "plenty".
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According to wikipedia there is a very small percentage who think Jesus did not exist as a historical figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

Although a very small number of modern scholars argue that Jesus never existed, that view is a distinct minority and virtually all scholars consider theories that Jesus' existence was a Christian invention as implausible.[5][24]
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heyhey said:
Santa clause is definitely more real in my home than Jesus. I am an atheist but I'm not militant about it. We do celebrate a secular christmas. My daughter only gets clothes from Santa though. I can't give him credit for the good gifts.
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LOL. This reminds me of an argument I'd have with my mom every year when my kids were little. She'd want to get them what they wanted from Santa, and didn't seem to understand that for the most part, the gifts they were asking Santa for were gifts that had to come from Santa, otherwise, what's the point? They'd usually compartmentalize their lists - what they wanted from Santa, what from Mom & Dad, from Nana & Grandpa etc. My mom always felt her list was sort of the "stuff we don't really care about" stuff...
Not to say that they'd get everything they were asking for, and I always told them we had to PAY Santa for gifts so they knew they had to keep it reasonable...

That made it easy to explain why Santa couldn't just bring stuff to poor families, and was always asking for donations.
 
One Brow said:
There a not-insignificant percentage of people (I've heard in the 20-35% range) who study the classical age that think Jesus did not exist. By contrast, there is a negligible percentage for Alexander and Julius Ceasar. I agree it's not a religious thing, but the evidence does not rise to the level of "plenty".
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babe ammo tbh

35% tells me academia is full of really smart but very strange people who need a psychiatrist more than a dissertation for tenure.
 
moevillini said:
LOL. This reminds me of an argument I'd have with my mom every year when my kids were little. She'd want to get them what they wanted from Santa, and didn't seem to understand that for the most part, the gifts they were asking Santa for were gifts that had to come from Santa, otherwise, what's the point? They'd usually compartmentalize their lists - what they wanted from Santa, what from Mom & Dad, from Nana & Grandpa etc. My mom always felt her list was sort of the "stuff we don't really care about" stuff...
Not to say that they'd get everything they were asking for, and I always told them we had to PAY Santa for gifts so they knew they had to keep it reasonable...

That made it easy to explain why Santa couldn't just bring stuff to poor families, and was always asking for donations.
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That's awesome.
 
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