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Site members can create their own journals and post comments. | Clash of the Titans 12-23-2007 at 09:37 am
Why Jesus is Better than Santa Claus
Santa brings us presents, Jesus brings love, joy and grace.
Santa comes once a year, Jesus stays with us all year.
Santa has a wife, Jesus has a whole world of children.
Santa hates warmth, Jesus loves warmth and cold.
Santa isn’t real, Jesus is and always will be real.
Santa lives in the North Pole, Jesus lives in our hearts.
Santa writes the naughty and nice list, Jesus writes the book of life.
Santa has imaginary Reindeer, Jesus has real love.
Santa is happy with his mansion to live in, Jesus is happy with his clouds to sleep on.
Santa eats cookies and milk, Jesus is the bread of life.
Santa has elves, Jesus has everyone.
My 10 year-old daughter goes to Catholic school, and this is a little piece that she was recently assigned to write.
Reading this, I am simultaneously filled with pride and horror. (Let's sideline the discussion of WHY my daughter goes to Catholic school, given my stated antipathy to religion. There are personal reasons in play here, but let's just say, it keeps the peace).
On the one hand, I have to marvel at my little girl's use of language to elicit an emotional effect. Yet at the same time, I cringe at the vapid platitudes that seem to spring so effortlessly from her pen.
And more to the point: When did Santa become the bad guy? Didn't the baby Jesus allegedly get presents on Christmas Day? And why is her teacher wasting time on such a fluff assignment?
I'm more bemused than upset about this silly thing--especially given the fact that she goes to a school named for Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children. Oh the irony.
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jwalker 12-23-2007, 10:16 pm
Santa is Jesus in disguise.
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LOki 12-24-2007, 07:47 am
I heard that there's a whole religion that believes Jesus and Santa are brothers.
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nurgleming 12-24-2007, 08:01 am
jebus wins everytime, infinite lives hax
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vasudeva 12-24-2007, 08:03 am
What was she asked to write? Broadly, a comparison of two seasonal ideas? Or specifically, reasons why Jesus is better than Santa?
Evidently it's not unusual for kids to co-opt this Jesus thing at a young age. I used to get letters from my seven-year-old cousin that would end with "Smile! Jesus loves you!" and I could never help but think "Oh yeah? How the fuck would you know?"
I have some snarky comments to make later if her school tasked her with exalting Jesus at the expense of St Nick.
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ragoo 12-24-2007, 01:16 pm
It was definitely an assignment to extol the surpassing virtues of Mr. Christ, while downplaying the outsized elf from the North.
Now of course I'm not at all surprised that the school is waving Jesus around at this time of year. In fact I fully expect them to. I'm just a little miffed that Santa's getting such a bad rap in all of this--as if the church never rode along on his bandwagon in order to publicize its own interests.
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