richardhutnik said:
And yet, while crazier, there isn't the level of rage over the issue of people believing something when they were younger and moving on from it. There are other issues here involved, likely involving a person's world view, priorities, and feeling like they don't fit in or are accepted. It is an anger at the world for not fitting one's preferences. It is wishing that the entire world would just sing "Imagine" and end up believing it, throw out religion, replace it with nothing, and then suddenly we have this utopia of peace, love and brotherhood. It is a concept that a non-existent being is responsible for all the evil in the world, or a large degree of it. This venting is NOT thrown at Santa. |
I'm not sure what you mean. I don't have a problem with people believing in any deity. Nor do I have a problem with young kids believing in Santa Clause. But I would have a problem, hypothetically, if a large amount of full grown adults walked around believing in Santa Clause. The reason being that a belief in Santa is just dumb for any adult. The same can't be said for religions, at least not all of them.