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Originally Posted by DuffMan
which is where that "common sense" that T@T mentioned comes into play.
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There are serious differences between the two, however.
Santa is a story based on a person, for children. The story itself is a modern invention, and while there are slightly different versions, they are all based off the same central idea. Generally speaking, no adult believes Santa exists. Your belief in Santa as a human relies on the belief in magic, as he does things that are scientifically impossible for a human to do, or that he is an alien.
Everything Santa does is based in out sphere of reality. He lives on earth, he enters every house of all the children, he gives people gifts, he owns reindeer. Mostly everything about him is designed measurable, and yet, we know nobody lives on the North Pole, nobody has ever seen him physically enter their own home, nobody ever receives actual gifts from him, nor are reindeer capable of living in temperatures native to the North Pole. If Santa was high concept, it'd be different, but because he's measurable, you can at very least disprove the current "Western" version of him.
What can you disprove about God? Other than some stories about God aren't true? It's existence isn't based on a measurable collective experience.
Santa is a specific story, and because the story can be disproven we can believe the man not to exist. God is a general concept, of which stories are written about, making it significantly more expansive and universal than Santa. God is not based off a man, but a tangible version of the perception that something outside of us exists.
If you can disprove that, you can start to prove god doesn't exist.