Oh, I SO agree, funmudder! Our 4 year old has never heard the word Santa out of our mouths! When the boys lose a tooth, they show it to dad and he hands them a dollar, and no, bunnies do not deliver eggs at our house. hehe We were walking to church one Resurrection Sunday morning and a neighbor asked the boys if the Easter Bunny had been to our house. My middle son says, "No, we're Christians."
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"Why have a holiday about Christ revolve around a rabbit?" This is from funmudder's post.
yes, indeed, moron. We were there first. You guys are imbeciles and cannot come up with an original idea if it bit you in the arse.
I have some friends who do the same thing except they're atheists. They're not a lot of fun to hang out with.
Not because they're atheists, but because they have no imagination.
Santa = Old man winter symbolic character of the comming of winter believe to be from the Pagan religion in its early stages.
Easter Bunny = The symbol of the fertile seasons (since rabbits reproduce like bitches) for the end of hibernations.
Christianity is really good at stealing nice things like this and making them really retarded.
To be fair, don't fundies also routinely get picked on by a number of people for continuing to celebrate holidays based on pagan celebrations? Well, these don't. Though... I think that's a lot more smug than was really necessary.
a neighbor asked the boys if the Easter Bunny had been to our house. My middle son says, "No, we're Christians."
Even the Easter Bunny hates christians.
Let me guess, you think it's funny and cute to brainwash your kid like that eh? Won't be so funny when you're rotting away in an old folks home (still waiting for the rapture)and your kid hates your stinking guts for all of the bullshit he had to wade through. Give it up churchie. You are failing as a parent.
I don't get what the big deal is. The quote here clearly indicates that they have at least started to see, and reject, parts of the fiction. sheesh. the commentors on fstdt are never satisfied. If this website were my only exposure to atheism, I probably would still be religious.
c'mon people. be _better_ than the fundies. Ad hominems really aren't necessary when the quotes speak for themselves.
Topaz_witch: awesome picture. :)
Whats with all the people saying this will mean the kid has no imagination and/or will destroy his childhood? I stopped believing in Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy etc long before I was 4yrs old, and my childhood was fine.
Note the bullshit. When Europe was (forcefully, savagely and brutally) "converted" to christianity, the shit-heads who were the mouthpieces of god itself, actually hijacked our springtime festival (then moved it to Easter using the Hebrew calendar) and our Yuletide festival (middle of winter, the shifted slightly and renamed Christmas) and created St. Nicholas (nicknamed Santa).
People, lack of Santa does not equal boringness/lack of imagination!
If he said he wasn't bringing his children up to beleive in God, the FSM, unicorns or any other fictional characters/creatures as real then would you have the same reaction?
"We were walking to church one Resurrection Sunday morning and a neighbor asked the boys if the Easter Bunny had been to our house. My middle son says, "No, we're Christians." "
Everybody hates christians, even the Easter Bunny. They heat their house using the coal Santa brings them.
So, the only fun parts of Christianity are what you are taking away?
You are proud that your kid doesn't believe the myth of the Easter Bunny as you are on the way to church for "Resurrection Sunday" and you can't see the irnoy there?
You are a dumbfuck.
@Katsuro
The point is that their taking away a real childhood and replacing it and turning their kids into joyless fundie robots.
Besides, I think it's ok for kids to believe in Santa, the tooth fairy, and easter bunny- it gives them a little fun when their younger and they're bound to outgrow their beliefs in Santa and other such figures as they get older.
Hey, at least they've actually read the bible.
Ever wonder if it was supposed to be the "Easter RABBI"?
So the person doesn't want their kids to grow up believing in fairy bullhonkey like Santa and the Easter bunny... big freakin' deal. I don't either. I'm not religious; I just think it's stupid to raise your kids to believe in a giant bunny that runs around and lays eggs in your yard.
(Admittedly, they're a little damn righteous about it.
Who says not believing in Santa or the Easter Bunny = boredom? You can still celebrate the holidays like everyone else.
When I was a kid, I found more joy getting presents, eating sweets, and finding the mystery eggs rather than belief in stupid imaginary characters. Why teach your kids that lying is wrong when you're telling them that Santa Claus is real?
@Somebody:
That's the point I was trying to make, thank you!
I honestly do not remember beleiving in Santa, Easter Bunny etc and my childhood was far from boring or in anyway lessened. Although if what my family tells me is true it wasn't because my parents chose to not let me beelive in such things, I apprently just stopped believing them very early in my life.
If I were a fundy, I wouldn't want my kids to believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny, either, because they'd eventually grow out of that belief and then they might figure out that all the religious crap I've forced on them is just make-believe, too.
My middle son says, "No, we're Christians."
They prefer to crucify the little bunnies in remembrance of Jesus.
JewBoy: Honestly, if I were ever to have children, I wouldn't likely teach them about those things as anything more than a game, but to be honest, any kid truly 'tramatised' by finding out that the aforementioned were anything but a game is going to have a seriously hard time going through life.
Personally I find the good natured fairy tales to be benign or even nice. Santa still gives you stuff even if you're bad, though it's clearly not anything a kid would want. In any case nobody takes those things seriously because I'd wager that a ridiculously small percentage of kids ever received coal for Christmas. It's just a fun imaginative thing for kids though I don't see the incentive for parents to disguise giving gifts to their children. In any case it very very very rarely does any harm if ever. Indoctrinating into such horrible and dangerous things as Christianity or other religions on the other hand can permanently destroy a person. I don't recommend it much, but it might be too late for your kids.
Fundies-sucking the fun out of childhood since 1649.
@JewBoy-My sibling's and I were raised that those weren't real, just a fun part of the holidays, and other occasions. We still got our stockings filled, quarters under the pillow, and colored eggs hidden in the yard, and played along, but we knew all along that the grown ups did it. But I've never heard a case of a kid being irreparably harmed by finding out they weren't real. In fact I know lots of kids who keep pretending to believe just to humor their parents.
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