Does the Santa Claus myth harm anyone? If so, How?
Well, there are the Life Lessons Taught, and the Spiritual Lessons Taught-None of them Good.
taken from "Santa Claus and his Elf, a Spiritual History"
Spiritual Lessons Children are Taught by Santa Claus-
1. Since Santa (a childs first real idea of a G*d Figure) only gives gift to weathy children, then being Rich equals being Righteous, if you arent Rich, then you ticked G*d off somehow. Or, your parents ticked him off so the kids cant be blessed. (Who Sinned, this man or his Parents? Jesus says _neither- Santa Claus says, -this man-)
2. Everything your parents ever told you about G*d or Religion, is probably also a lie, since they were also lying about a mythical man in a red suit the same Sunday they sent you to Church.
3. G*d is the Divine Santa Claus. Just ask Santa (Pray to Santa, whom the Catholics say is a dead St. Called Nicholaus), instead of G*d, when you need or honestly desire something. Biblically, praying to the dead is called Necromancy.
4. Prosperity Gospel. All of G*ds Blessings are material.
5. It is better to RECEIVE than the GIVE.
6. Loved is best expressed with TOYS-Today Tickle Me Elmow, in Adulthood, buy your wife jewelry and a new car if she does what you want. Your time, you Love, your affect and presence, arent needed, just your money and what it can buy. If G*ds loves you, He will also give you more toys.
7. We can take customs from Satan worship and blend them with the worship of G*d, Why? Because we can do anything as long as the preacher nods his head, the churches winks an eye, and everyone else is doing it. For example, setting up Baal Tree in a Church, which celebrated the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Baal every December 25th, often with child sacrifice and drunken orgies or temple prostitution) You can find him all over the Bible.
8. Gifts are best given to people that can give you one back-Contrary to the Words of Jesus, that we should give to those who cannot give back to us, so that we will be rewarded.
9. No matter what you did in Life, if you make up for it in December, you will be okay in the afterlife. Like how kids learned to behave better in December, but never have a change of heart.
10. "Let your -Yes- be -Yes- and your -No- be -No-" doesnt apply when it may upset someone or burst their bubble. Is Santa Real?? ofcourse he is son/daughter.
Don't we consider much of the ancient world spiritually untrustworthy for believing in such mythological creatures as unicorns, krakens, and dragons (dinosaurs is what dragons were, reptiles grow until they die), and dieties such as Thor, Zeus, and Jupiter controlling the weather and bringing you blessing for doing what the Priests (Spiritual Symbol for Fathers) told them to do??. I wonder how dumb future archaeologists will consider us for believing the first 1/5 of our life that a man in a red suit climbs down chimneys with gravity defying livestock????
Doesn't that ruin our credibility as a society, as Spiritual Leaders? especially as parents-borthers/Sisters??
Natural Lessons Children are Taught
Chiefly, the first memory children have is of their parents lying to them-and then we are scratching our heads when our children dont trust what we tell them about Drugs, Heavy Drinking, Sleeping Around, or anything else??
Santa Claus is
A: A harmless deception (like Evolution, letting Hitler taking over the Sudetenland bringing peace to the world, renaming an unborn baby to be called a "fetus" so you don't feel bad about killing it in the womb, etc)
or
B:
1.A very extravagant lie, told by parents to children over a period of several years-which shows lot of thought went into it-this wasn't a spur of the moment fib which is not okay to parents, but plotting in this deception in this case is okay. What happened to "let your YES be YES and NO be NO, anything other than this is from the EVIL ONE."
2. A lie that is told every year-which shows that its okay to lie to people over and over and over again until they get suspicious, then you have to tell them the trust and hope they believe you when it comes to important things like Christianity, Truth, the importance of marriage and human life, Creation vs. Evolution, etc.
3. A lie that is very well hidden-parents go out of their way to prevent their children from discovering the truth. So its okay to cover up your lies.
4. A lie that advertisers flock around-so money is to be made from deception. And that's kewl.
5. A lie that other people are brought into all the time (lets all pretend that Santa exists)-so conspiracy is okay as well.
6. A lie that has been passed down through generations-to teach your kids to lie to their kids.
Does anyone think all this deception may start a child out on the wrong foot???
Actions do speak louder than words, and actions seen are lying, conspiring, and covering up, for years on end until the truth is discovered, and then people who are your role models, try to convince you of the lie again, and also, since you are the role model for younger siblings, don't tell them the truth or you'll be in big trouble. Great example to follow.
Which is better for a child, to tell them, on December 25th (birthday of the sun god-Baal of the Bible people sacrificed their children too)in America people who care about each other show their affection with gifts. And we love you so much we spent all this money and wrapped all these gifts to show you we care (buying our kids and showing them love equals money, which is a different story) but at least admitting it came from the parents. Or tell them that some man that they have never met and don't know will come through a chimney and bring them toys because they didn't raise to much hell that year-if you are good, benevolent strangers send you checks in the mail (a little priming for Joel Osteen and the Prosperity -Gospel-) and taking G*ds Name in Vain by reducing Him to a Divine Santa Claus and nothing more (Like the Pharisees who didnt wish to hear the teachings of Jesus, but only see a miracle-and the crowd who just returned for more Loaves and Fishes). I believe it would be better for a child to know that he is loved than to lie to him all through his formative years.
Seems that the whole Santa Claus cover-up ruins the kids and only benefits parents and advertisers. Advertisers make money off the Christmas decorations-which are bought by Christians (regretably)and non-Christians alike. If they just sold nativity scenes then they wouldn't make as much profit. And the parents benefit from having the children think Santa is watching them-since you can't say Jesus, God, or anything of that sort anymore. And the Non-Christian children will be duped into behaving as well.
Maybe the only benefit to the kids is that when they grow up, they can have this imaginary babysitter for their kids in the whole month of December as well???? No wonder Buddhists, Hindu's, and Wiccans all celebrate x-mas too! Aside from it coming from their religions instead of Christianity.
What Does G*d Say- aside from "Let your YES be YES and NO be NO, anything aside from this is from the EVIL ONE"
20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
(1 Cor 10:20)
1st John 3:4 "Sin is Breaking the Law of G-d, in fact, anyone who Sins Breaks the LAW of G-d"
14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15And what concord hath Christ with Baal? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
(2 Cor 6:14-18)
Deuteronomy 13:1 "Everything I am Commanding you, you are to take care to do. Do not add to it or subtract from it." So, we can’t pick and choose which to keep.
2. Deuteronomy 7:26 "Do not bring something abbhorrent into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it, instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly, for it is set apart for destruction". How does G*d feel about praying to dead people, Baal Trees, Santa Elves (which come from an Austrian Demons with Black fur and horns called Krampus), December 25th, which celebrates Baal resurrecting from the Dead, etc. He detests them.
3. Deuteronomy 12:30-31 "Be careful, after they have been destroyed ahead of you, NOT to be trapped into following them, so that you inquire after their gods and ask "How did these nations serves their gods? (with X-mas Trees, Easter Eggs, Maypoles), I want to do the same! You MUST NOT do this TO ADONNAI, Your God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations that Adonnai HATES!. They even burn up their sons and daughters in the fire for. their gods!” So, we CAN NOT Adopt their practices to worship G*d. To G*d this is disgusting. Wasn't Saul in big trouble in 2nd Samuel for trying to offer to God/worship God, with the very things God had said to destroy (Saul offered the gold of the pagans to G*d on the Altar-and we offer their instruments of Satan worship too).
God was upset with Cain for worhipping/remembering God, in the exact opposite way God desired. Vegetable and not animals, with pagan holidays He commanded be destroyed, not adopted, instead of the ones He set forth.
4. Deuteronomy 12:2 "You must DESTROY all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, or under some leafy tree). BREAK DOWN their altars, smash their standing stones to pieces, burned up their sacred poles and cut down the carved images of their gods. EXTERMINATE their name from that place." Burn the X-mas Tree, dont bring it into your house as an altar.
This answers what we are to do with the Pagan Symbols in our own houses.
Failure to do this has kept Wicca alive and prospering in America . In we are desenstived to things, we'll glady accept them. After a while, we don't even blink. Or we tell our kids, Paganism is okay as long as its not PURELY Satanic, only Half.
5. Deuteronomy 16:21 "You are not to plant any sort of tree as a sacred pole beside the altar of Adonnai your God, that you will make for yourselves. Likewise, do not set up a standing stone, Adonai your GOD HATES such things." Shows how G*d feels about Easter Egg Hunts and Christmas Trees in Churches. Which are all part of Demon worshi´p.
6. 1 Corinthians 10:21 (Whole Chapter)
You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too. Paul repeating the same command to the Galatians who were trying toworship G*d using pagan methods and symbols.
Is G*d pleased with Offerings He said He did not Want?? Since its too hard to give up our Traditions, will He mind if we keep them??
7. Malachi 1:13 (Whole Chapter)
“You say, ‘It’s too hard to serve the Lord,’ and you turn up your noses at my commands,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Think of it! Animals that are stolen and crippled and sick are being presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?” asks the Lord. “If we say, “it is to hard to give up our traditions”, and if He was this upset over less than the best in sacrifices, what happens when we try to Honor Him with the symbols of Satan?
8.. Jeremiah 10:2-4Here is what Adonnai says:
"Don't learn the ways of the gentiles (pagan peoples), don't be frightened by astrological signs, even if the gentiles are afraid of them. for the customs of the people are nothing. They cut down a tree in the forest, a craftsman works it with his axe, they DECK IT WITH SILVER AND GOLD. They fix it (upright) with hammer and nails, so that it won't move." Not only the X-mas (Baal Tree) but the Winter Equinox December 25th, is also a Satanic Holy Day-actually the highest holy day on the pagan calendar, marked by Stone Henge.
Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall cause one on these little ones which believe in me to sin, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 5:17 "He who keeps the Least of the Commands and teaches others to do likewise will be called Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who fails to keep the least of these Commands and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven."
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
(I Kings 18:21)
1Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
(Jeremiah 10:1-5)
25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
(Deuteronomy 7:25-26)
29When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
(Deuteronomy 12:29-31)
What Children Everywhere, Learned from Santa This Year
Does the Santa Claus myth harm anyone? Yes it does. How? Well, there are the Life Lessons Taught, and the Spiritual Lessons Taught-None of them Good. Chiefly, the first memory children have is of their parents lying to them-and then we are scratching our heads when our children dont trust what we tell them about Drugs, Heavy Drinking, Sleeping Around, or anything else??
Life Lessons Children Are Taught_
Santa Claus is and teaches:
1.A very extravagant lie-which shows lot of thought went into it-this wasn't a spur of the moment fib which is not okay to parents, but plotting deception is okay.
2. A lie that is told every year-which shows that its okay to lie to people over and over and over again until they get suspicious.
3. A lie that is very well hidden-parents go out of their way to prevent their children from discovering the truth. So its okay to cover up your lies.
4. A lie that advertisers flock around-so money is to be made from deception. And that's kewl.
5. A lie that other people are brought into all the time (lets all pretend that Santa exists)-so conspiracy is okay as well.
6. A lie that has been passed down through generations-to teach your kids to lie to their kids.
Does anyone think all this deception may start a child out on the wrong foot???
Actions do speak louder than words, and actions seen are lying, conspiring, and covering up, for years on end until the truth is discovered, and then people who are your role models, try to convince you of the lie again, and also, since you are the role model for younger siblings, don't tell them the truth or you'll be in big trouble. Great example to follow.
Which is better for a child, to tell them, on December 25th (birthday of the sun god-Baal of the Bible people sacrificed their children too)in America people who care about each other show their affection with gifts. And we love you so much we spent all this money and wrapped all these gifts to show you we care (buying our kids and showing them love equals money, which is a different story) ubt at least admitting it came from the parents. Or tell them that some man that they have never met and don't know will come through a chimney and bring them toys because they didn't raise to much hell that year-if you are good, benevolent strangers send you checks in the mail (a little priming for Joel Osteen and the Prosperity -Gospel-) and taking G*ds Name in Vain by reducing Him to a Divine Santa Claus and nothing more (Like the Pharisees who didnt wish to hear the teachings of Jesus, but only see a miracle-and the crowd who just returned for more Loaves and Fishes). I believe it would be better for a child to know that he is loved than to lie to him all through his formative years.
Seems that the whole Santa Claus cover-up ruins the kids and only benefits parents and advertisers. Advertisers make money off the Christmas decorations-which are bought by Christians (regretably)and non-Christians alike. If they just sold nativity scenes then they wouldn't make as much profit. And the parents benefit from having the children think Santa is watching them-since you can't say Jesus, God, or anything of that sort anymore. And the Non-Christian children will be duped into behaving as well.
Maybe the only benefit to the kids is that when they grow up, they can have this imaginary babysitter for their kids in the whole month of December as well????
Spiritual Lessons Children are Taught-
1. Since Santa (a childs first real idea of a G*d Figure) only gives gift to weathy children, then being Rich equals being Righteous, if you arent Rich, then you ticked G*d off somehow. Or, your parents ticked him off so the kids cant be blessed. (Who Sinned, this man or his Parents? Jesus says _neither- Santa Claus says, -this man-)
2. Everything your parents ever told you about G*d or Religion, is probably also a lie, since they were also lying about a mythical man in a red suit the same Sunday they sent you to Church.
3. G*d is the Divine Santa Claus. Just ask Santa (Pray to Santa, whom the Catholics say is a dead St. Called Nicholaus), instead of G*d, when you need or honestly desire something. Biblically, praying to the dead is called Necromancy.
4. Prosperity Gospel. All of G*ds Blessings are material.
5. It is better to RECEIVE than the GIVE.
6. Loved is best expressed with TOYS-Today Tickle Me Elmow, in Adulthood, buy your wife jewelry and a new car if she does what you want. Your time, you Love, your affect and presence, arent needed, just your money and what it can buy. If G*ds loves you, He will also give you more toys.
7. We can take customs from Satan worship and blend them with the worship of G*d, Why? Because we can do anything as long as the preacher nods his head, the churches winks an eye, and everyone else is doing it. For example, setting up Baal Tree in a Church, which celebrated the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Baal every December 25th, often with child sacrifice and drunken orgies or temple prostitution) You can find him all over the Bible.
8. Gifts are best given to people that can give you one back-Contrary to the Words of Jesus, that we should give to those who cannot give back to us, so that we will be rewarded.
9. No matter what you did in Life, if you make up for it in December, you will be okay in the afterlife. Like how kids learned to behave better in December, but never have a change of heart.
10. "Let your -Yes- be -Yes- and your -No- be -No-" doesnt apply when it may upset someone or burst their bubble. Is Santa Real?? ofcourse he is son/daughter.
Don't we consider much of the ancient world spiritually untrustworthy for believing in such mythological creatures as unicorns, krakens, and dragons (dinosaurs is what dragons were, reptiles grow until they die), and dieties such as Thor, Zeus, and Jupiter controlling the weather and bringing you blessing for doing what the Priests (Spiritual Symbol for Fathers) told them to do??. I wonder how dumb future archaeologists will consider us for believing the first 1/5 of our life that a man in a red suit climbs down chimneys with gravity defying livestock????
Doesn't that ruin our credibility as a society, especially as parents-borthers/Sisters????
What Does G*d Say- aside from "Let your YES be YES and NO be NO, anything aside from this is from the EVIL ONE"
Deuteronomy 13:1 "Everything I am Commanding you, you are to take care to do. Do not add to it or subtract from it." So, we can’t pick and choose which to keep.
2. Deuteronomy 7:26 "Do not bring something abbhorrent into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it, instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly, for it is set apart for destruction". How does G*d feel about praying to dead people, Baal Trees, Santa Elves (which come from an Austrian Demons with Black fur and horns called Krampus), December 25th, which celebrates Baal resurrecting from the Dead, etc. he detests them.
3. Deuteronomy 12:30-31 "Be careful, after they have been destroyed ahead of you, NOT to be trapped into following them, so that you inquire after their gods and ask "How did these nations serves their gods? (with X-mas Trees, Easter Eggs, Maypoles), I want to do the same! You MUST NOT do this TO ADONNAI, Your God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations that Adonnai HATES!. They even burn up their sons and daughters in the fire for. their gods!” So, we CAN NOT Adopt their practices to worship G*d. To G*d this is disgusting. Wasn't Saul in big trouble in 2nd Samuel for trying to offer to God/worship God, with the very things God had said to destroy (Saul offered the gold of the pagans to G*d on the Altar-and we offer their instruments of Satan worship too).
God was upset with Cain for worhipping/remembering God, in the exact opposite way God desired. Vegetable and not animals, with pagan holidays He commanded be destroyed, not adopted, instead of the ones He set forth.
4. Deuteronomy 12:2 "You must DESTROY all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, or under some leafy tree). BREAK DOWN their altars, smash their standing stones to pieces, burned up their sacred poles and cut down the carved images of their gods. EXTERMINATE their name from that place." Burn the X-mas Tree, dont bring it into your house as an altar.
This answers what we are to do with the Pagan Symbols in our own houses.
Failure to do this has kept Wicca alive and prospering in America . In we are desenstived to things, we'll glady accept them. After a while, we don't even blink. Or we tell our kids, Paganism is okay as long as its not PURELY Satanic, only Half.
5. Deuteronomy 16:21 "You are not to plant any sort of tree as a sacred pole beside the altar of Adonnai your God, that you will make for yourselves. Likewise, do not set up a standing stone, Adonai your GOD HATES such things." Shows how G*d feels about Easter Egg Hunts and Christmas Trees in Churches. Which are all part of Demon worshi´p.
6. 1 Corinthians 10:21 (Whole Chapter)
You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too. Paul repeating the same command to the Galatians who were trying toworship G*d using pagan methods and symbols.
Is G*d pleased with Offerings He said He did not Want?? Since its too hard to give up our Traditions, will He mind if we keep them??
7. Malachi 1:13 (Whole Chapter)
“You say, ‘It’s too hard to serve the Lord,’ and you turn up your noses at my commands,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Think of it! Animals that are stolen and crippled and sick are being presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?” asks the Lord. “If we say, “it is to hard to give up our traditions”, and if He was this upset over less than the best in sacrifices, what happens when we try to Honor Him with the symbols of Satan?
8.. Jeremiah 10:2-4Here is what Adonnai says:
"Don't learn the ways of the gentiles (pagan peoples), don't be frightened by astrological signs, even if the gentiles are afraid of them. for the customs of the people are nothing. They cut down a tree in the forest, a craftsman works it with his axe, they DECK IT WITH SILVER AND GOLD. They fix it (upright) with hammer and nails, so that it won't move." Not only the X-mas (Baal Tree) but the Winter Equinox December 25th, is also a Satanic Holy Day-actually the highest holy day on the pagan calendar, marked by Stone Henge.
Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall cause one on these little ones which believe in me to sin, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 5:17 "He who keeps the Least of the Commands and teaches others to do likewise will be called Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who fails to keep the least of these Commands and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven."
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
(I Kings 18:21)
20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
(1 Cor 10:20)
1st John 3:4 "Sin is Breaking the Law of G-d, in fact, anyone who Sins Breaks the LAW of G-d"
14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
(2 Cor 6:14-18)
1Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
(Jeremiah 10:1-5)
25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
(Deuteronomy 7:25-26)
29When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
(Deuteronomy 12:29-31)
Does the Santa Claus myth harm anyone? Yes it does. How? Well, there are the Life Lessons Taught, and the Spiritual Lessons Taught-None of them Good. Chiefly, the first memory children have is of their parents lying to them-and then we are scratching our heads when our children dont trust what we tell them about Drugs, Heavy Drinking, Sleeping Around, or anything else??
Life Lessons Children Are Taught_
Santa Claus is and teaches:
1.A very extravagant lie-which shows lot of thought went into it-this wasn't a spur of the moment fib which is not okay to parents, but plotting deception is okay.
2. A lie that is told every year-which shows that its okay to lie to people over and over and over again until they get suspicious.
3. A lie that is very well hidden-parents go out of their way to prevent their children from discovering the truth. So its okay to cover up your lies.
4. A lie that advertisers flock around-so money is to be made from deception. And that's kewl.
5. A lie that other people are brought into all the time (lets all pretend that Santa exists)-so conspiracy is okay as well.
6. A lie that has been passed down through generations-to teach your kids to lie to their kids.
Does anyone think all this deception may start a child out on the wrong foot???
Actions do speak louder than words, and actions seen are lying, conspiring, and covering up, for years on end until the truth is discovered, and then people who are your role models, try to convince you of the lie again, and also, since you are the role model for younger siblings, don't tell them the truth or you'll be in big trouble. Great example to follow.
Which is better for a child, to tell them, on December 25th (birthday of the sun god-Baal of the Bible people sacrificed their children too)in America people who care about each other show their affection with gifts. And we love you so much we spent all this money and wrapped all these gifts to show you we care (buying our kids and showing them love equals money, which is a different story) ubt at least admitting it came from the parents. Or tell them that some man that they have never met and don't know will come through a chimney and bring them toys because they didn't raise to much hell that year-if you are good, benevolent strangers send you checks in the mail (a little priming for Joel Osteen and the Prosperity -Gospel-) and taking G*ds Name in Vain by reducing Him to a Divine Santa Claus and nothing more (Like the Pharisees who didnt wish to hear the teachings of Jesus, but only see a miracle-and the crowd who just returned for more Loaves and Fishes). I believe it would be better for a child to know that he is loved than to lie to him all through his formative years.
Seems that the whole Santa Claus cover-up ruins the kids and only benefits parents and advertisers. Advertisers make money off the Christmas decorations-which are bought by Christians (regretably)and non-Christians alike. If they just sold nativity scenes then they wouldn't make as much profit. And the parents benefit from having the children think Santa is watching them-since you can't say Jesus, God, or anything of that sort anymore. And the Non-Christian children will be duped into behaving as well.
Maybe the only benefit to the kids is that when they grow up, they can have this imaginary babysitter for their kids in the whole month of December as well????
Spiritual Lessons Children are Taught-
1. Since Santa (a childs first real idea of a G*d Figure) only gives gift to weathy children, then being Rich equals being Righteous, if you arent Rich, then you ticked G*d off somehow. Or, your parents ticked him off so the kids cant be blessed. (Who Sinned, this man or his Parents? Jesus says _neither- Santa Claus says, -this man-)
2. Everything your parents ever told you about G*d or Religion, is probably also a lie, since they were also lying about a mythical man in a red suit the same Sunday they sent you to Church.
3. G*d is the Divine Santa Claus. Just ask Santa (Pray to Santa, whom the Catholics say is a dead St. Called Nicholaus), instead of G*d, when you need or honestly desire something. Biblically, praying to the dead is called Necromancy.
4. Prosperity Gospel. All of G*ds Blessings are material.
5. It is better to RECEIVE than the GIVE.
6. Loved is best expressed with TOYS-Today Tickle Me Elmow, in Adulthood, buy your wife jewelry and a new car if she does what you want. Your time, you Love, your affect and presence, arent needed, just your money and what it can buy. If G*ds loves you, He will also give you more toys.
7. We can take customs from Satan worship and blend them with the worship of G*d, Why? Because we can do anything as long as the preacher nods his head, the churches winks an eye, and everyone else is doing it. For example, setting up Baal Tree in a Church, which celebrated the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Baal every December 25th, often with child sacrifice and drunken orgies or temple prostitution) You can find him all over the Bible.
8. Gifts are best given to people that can give you one back-Contrary to the Words of Jesus, that we should give to those who cannot give back to us, so that we will be rewarded.
9. No matter what you did in Life, if you make up for it in December, you will be okay in the afterlife. Like how kids learned to behave better in December, but never have a change of heart.
10. "Let your -Yes- be -Yes- and your -No- be -No-" doesnt apply when it may upset someone or burst their bubble. Is Santa Real?? ofcourse he is son/daughter.
Don't we consider much of the ancient world spiritually untrustworthy for believing in such mythological creatures as unicorns, krakens, and dragons (dinosaurs is what dragons were, reptiles grow until they die), and dieties such as Thor, Zeus, and Jupiter controlling the weather and bringing you blessing for doing what the Priests (Spiritual Symbol for Fathers) told them to do??. I wonder how dumb future archaeologists will consider us for believing the first 1/5 of our life that a man in a red suit climbs down chimneys with gravity defying livestock????
Doesn't that ruin our credibility as a society, especially as parents-borthers/Sisters??
What Does G*d Say- aside from "Let your YES be YES and NO be NO, anything aside from this is from the EVIL ONE"
Deuteronomy 13:1 "Everything I am Commanding you, you are to take care to do. Do not add to it or subtract from it." So, we can’t pick and choose which to keep.
2. Deuteronomy 7:26 "Do not bring something abbhorrent into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it, instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly, for it is set apart for destruction". How does G*d feel about praying to dead people, Baal Trees, Santa Elves (which come from an Austrian Demons with Black fur and horns called Krampus), December 25th, which celebrates Baal resurrecting from the Dead, etc. he detests them.
3. Deuteronomy 12:30-31 "Be careful, after they have been destroyed ahead of you, NOT to be trapped into following them, so that you inquire after their gods and ask "How did these nations serves their gods? (with X-mas Trees, Easter Eggs, Maypoles), I want to do the same! You MUST NOT do this TO ADONNAI, Your God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations that Adonnai HATES!. They even burn up their sons and daughters in the fire for. their gods!” So, we CAN NOT Adopt their practices to worship G*d. To G*d this is disgusting. Wasn't Saul in big trouble in 2nd Samuel for trying to offer to God/worship God, with the very things God had said to destroy (Saul offered the gold of the pagans to G*d on the Altar-and we offer their instruments of Satan worship too).
God was upset with Cain for worhipping/remembering God, in the exact opposite way God desired. Vegetable and not animals, with pagan holidays He commanded be destroyed, not adopted, instead of the ones He set forth.
4. Deuteronomy 12:2 "You must DESTROY all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, or under some leafy tree). BREAK DOWN their altars, smash their standing stones to pieces, burned up their sacred poles and cut down the carved images of their gods. EXTERMINATE their name from that place." Burn the X-mas Tree, dont bring it into your house as an altar.
This answers what we are to do with the Pagan Symbols in our own houses.
Failure to do this has kept Wicca alive and prospering in America . In we are desenstived to things, we'll glady accept them. After a while, we don't even blink. Or we tell our kids, Paganism is okay as long as its not PURELY Satanic, only Half.
5. Deuteronomy 16:21 "You are not to plant any sort of tree as a sacred pole beside the altar of Adonnai your God, that you will make for yourselves. Likewise, do not set up a standing stone, Adonai your GOD HATES such things." Shows how G*d feels about Easter Egg Hunts and Christmas Trees in Churches. Which are all part of Demon worshi´p.
6. 1 Corinthians 10:21 (Whole Chapter)
You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too. Paul repeating the same command to the Galatians who were trying toworship G*d using pagan methods and symbols.
Is G*d pleased with Offerings He said He did not Want?? Since its too hard to give up our Traditions, will He mind if we keep them??
7. Malachi 1:13 (Whole Chapter)
“You say, ‘It’s too hard to serve the Lord,’ and you turn up your noses at my commands,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Think of it! Animals that are stolen and crippled and sick are being presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?” asks the Lord. “If we say, “it is to hard to give up our traditions”, and if He was this upset over less than the best in sacrifices, what happens when we try to Honor Him with the symbols of Satan?
8.. Jeremiah 10:2-4Here is what Adonnai says:
"Don't learn the ways of the gentiles (pagan peoples), don't be frightened by astrological signs, even if the gentiles are afraid of them. for the customs of the people are nothing. They cut down a tree in the forest, a craftsman works it with his axe, they DECK IT WITH SILVER AND GOLD. They fix it (upright) with hammer and nails, so that it won't move." Not only the X-mas (Baal Tree) but the Winter Equinox December 25th, is also a Satanic Holy Day-actually the highest holy day on the pagan calendar, marked by Stone Henge.
Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall cause one on these little ones which believe in me to sin, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 5:17 "He who keeps the Least of the Commands and teaches others to do likewise will be called Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who fails to keep the least of these Commands and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven."
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
(I Kings 18:21)
20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
(1 Cor 10:20)
1st John 3:4 "Sin is Breaking the Law of G-d, in fact, anyone who Sins Breaks the LAW of G-d"
14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
(2 Cor 6:14-18)
1Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
(Jeremiah 10:1-5)
25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
(Deuteronomy 7:25-26)
29When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
(Deuteronomy 12:29-31)
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