Showing posts with label Parenting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parenting. Show all posts

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Should we Teach the Santa Myth?

One question I’ve brought up at Youth Ministry is whether we as Christians should continue to perpetuate the Santa Myth.  And by the Santa Myth I mean the following:
“Convincing children that there is a man who lives at the North Pole who monitors their behavior and annually distributes presents.”
My position is:  No.  This is both immoral and counterproductive to raising children in the Christian faith.

Today I’m going to defend this claim with a somewhat Thomistic flair.