Well, I'll agree that some parents DO use Santa/God to threaten their children and/or demand good behavior. And funny you should mention, but I am one of those kids who didn't get much from "Santa" as a child, and one year I actually got coal! As a child matures, they learn about the "myth" of Santa, and may choose to believe that God is also a "myth," but that never happened with me. My experience of Santa was completely controlled solely by my parents. But I experience God in everyone around me, all creation, and through the gift of grace given to me. Oh, and btw, I'll take a velvet elvis over a velvet santa or jesus any day. ;)
Anima Sola isn't fond of labels. She is, however, fond of embracing her many paradoxes, and walking the fine lines between religion and politics, with an eye turned toward postmodern religion, feminist theology, and challenging patriarchy from inside the Roman Catholic Church.
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." ~From the book The Four Loves by C.S.Lewis
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both are lies you tell children,both end up disapointing childern who think they did something wrong,both can be bought as velvet framed art.....
Well, I'll agree that some parents DO use Santa/God to threaten their children and/or demand good behavior.
And funny you should mention, but I am one of those kids who didn't get much from "Santa" as a child, and one year I actually got coal!
As a child matures, they learn about the "myth" of Santa, and may choose to believe that God is also a "myth," but that never happened with me.
My experience of Santa was completely controlled solely by my parents. But I experience God in everyone around me, all creation, and through the gift of grace given to me.
Oh, and btw, I'll take a velvet elvis over a velvet santa or jesus any day. ;)
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