Richard Dawkins: Telling children the myth of Santa Claus could damage them

Sal

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:-( I'm so damaged.

now that I know there is no Santa Claus

there should have been a spoiler alert on this thread
 

damngrumpy

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What? You don't believe in Santa? You can't shake my faith like that
I get presents from him every year and presents with his name on the
tag there must be a Santa
 

Sal

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What? You don't believe in Santa? You can't shake my faith like that
I get presents from him every year and presents with his name on the
tag there must be a Santa
good point, Santa shows his love every year!!!
 

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Perhaps we should lower the age to work. perhaps 8 -10. Make it mandatory, teach the little buggers what life is like without an education or a skilled trade.
 

Sal

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Perhaps we should lower the age to work. perhaps 8 -10. Make it mandatory, teach the little buggers what life is like without an education or a skilled trade.
sounds good, we could save a lot on our educational costs that way
 

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From the OP Link:
This is according to controversial biologist Richard Dawkins who warned an audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival about the dangers of make-believe.

In typically incendiary style, Dawkins suggested it was 'pernicious to instil in a child the view that the world is shaped by supernaturalism.'

Oh "God", heaven forbid we allow our children to have a fk'n imagination.

I want to imagine Willow vanishes him to a realm where we no longer have to see or hear from again
 

Blackleaf

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A PHD in zoology telling us the world is overheating...


A Biologist who thinks he thinks he's a Psychiatrist....


A real bizzaro world we're turning into..............

It's a bizarro WESTERN world we're turning into to. The rest of the world doesn't follow this modern, silly, PC nonsense that we follow.

I blame left-wing radical students in Yankee campuses in the 1970s.
 

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Santa Claus is a Coke commercial icon representing mindless consumerism. Judging by the posts on this thread. Santa has you all brainwashed.... HAHAHAHA!!!
 

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This is the kind of "there is no Santa Claus! He is not real! He's just from a Coca-Cola advert" thread that we traditionally have on this forum over the Christmas period.

Anyone reading it will probably be right into coming to the conclusion that Canada is now a nation of Christmas-hating, misery-guts Scrooges who probably get some kind of sick perverted pleasure in telling their children that Santa isn't real. You never see this on other nations' forums.
 

Cliffy

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This is the kind of "there is no Santa Claus! He is not real! He's just from a Coca-Cola advert" thread that we traditionally have on this forum over the Christmas period.

Anyone reading it will probably be right into coming to the conclusion that Canada is now a nation of Christmas-hating, misery-guts Scrooges who probably get some kind of sick perverted pleasure in telling their children that Santa isn't real. You never see this on other nations' forums.
Bah Humbug! Buy the kids all; the toxic plastic crap made in China all you want. When they get sick and/or die you can blame it on Santa.
 

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Dawkins works his paid role as a leading skeptic and recognized expert of reality, scientific and otherwise, of course in his limited mind he considers it appropriate to teach Darwinism and the Big Bang the two leading science fairy tales of the modern era. I got over the shock of Santas mythical nature as soon as I confirmed, Scientifically,the uninterrupted flow of material goods on that sacred date despite my new found disbelief. I was worried for a while.