#347 December 13.

#347 December 13.

Actually, I consider Santa Claus to be another aspect of the commercialization.
I think I was thirteen before I realized that there were young children who
were actually taught to *believe* in Santa, and I still consider this a
cruel, if unintentional, hoax by misguided parents. What is Santa, after all,
but an ersatz Christ figure for those unwilling to come to terms with evil and
good, capable at most of acknowledging the “naughty” and the “nice?” I am
agnostic, I think, but I cannot deny the reality of the subjective religious
experience, and this sense of wonder and yearning has been with me for as long
as I can remember. Santa to me is a sort of mockery, a “safe” substitute for
true religious feeling. I do not approve.

-Paul Callahan

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