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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 05:31 AM
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250. After all, one watches your life, judges you, and rewards you
with good things after that, if you've lived by his standards, while either not giving anything to the bad people, or inflicting them with nasty gifts. He does this observation and rewarding through supernatural means. While the other ... does exactly the same thing. Yeah, why should any comparison be made at all?

Belief in Santa Claus comes to children 'honestly', too. They listen to their parents, and, as humans tend to do, especially when listening to kind and caring people, they trust what they have been told.

And strangely, Santa Claus is named after a prominent Christian. Perhaps the Christian churches thought the story, apparently derived from north European or Siberian pagan stories, was worth comparing with the ideals of Christianity?
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