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Originally Posted by photon
Or rather Jesus happens to be a deity of a subset of the population.
If someone prayed to Santa, then everyone would be equally confused and/or left out so there's no marginalization going on, no human rights claim. 
The Santa equivalence only works from the perspective of a non-believer, because all imaginary beings are imaginary to a non-believer.
For a believer the Santa equivalence doesn't work because a different religion still believes in god(s), so promoting Yahweh over Allah/Shiva/Odin/Wotan isn't the same.
Good angle though, I like it when someone brings up really a different way of looking at it. |
Off topic a bit but I remember when very young, my dad told me there was no Santa. I felt liberated and a little proud that I'd been let in on an adult secret and intuitively I knew it was true. The thing is that there really is a
St. Nicholas it's just that he has little relationship to the modern day cultural myth.
Is it that there really is a god but he has little relationship to the modern cultural myth perpetuated by various religions?
Myself, I don't like it when various religious people start evangelizing to a captive audience but if they stick to the Lord's Prayer, I'm good with that.