[Vision2020] Santa Claus

[Paul Rumelhart]

I'd start buying more Coca-Cola products if they started featuring 
Krampus in their commercials.

Paul

On 12/24/2011 11:39 AM, Jay Borden wrote:
> Let's not forget the convenience of omitting Krampus in our modern-day Coca-Cola sterilization of the holiday season.
>
> Jay
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Rumelhart [godshatter at yahoo.com]
> Received: Saturday, 24 Dec 2011, 11:35am
> To: Ralph Nielsen [nielsen at uidaho.edu]
> CC: vision 2020 [Vision2020 at moscow.com]
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Santa Claus
>
>
> Santa Claus isn't a deity requiring our worship.  He's an Internet meme,
> like pedobear or the lolcats, but from a time before there was an Internet.
>
> Paul
>
> On 12/24/2011 11:06 AM, Ralph Nielsen wrote:
>> DO YOU BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS?
>>
>> For many years millions of people have believed in Santa Claus. Today
>> millions more believe in him. Why do so many claim Santa as their personal
>> friend? Because they have found that the true way to know Santa is to
>> believe in him. And the only way to receive his gifts is to become like
>> little children and have complete faith in him.
>>
>> Of course some people - agnostics, atheists, freethinkers, liberals, and
>> secular humanists - claim that Santa Claus is a mythical being who was
>> invented by humans. But these scoffers and doubters will never destroy
>> people's faith in him, for as long as people believe in free gifts they
>> will believe in Santa Claus.
>>
>> Human gifts have to be made out of earthly materials; Santa creates his
>> gifts out of nothing. Human gifts have to be paid for; Santa gives us his
>> gifts for free. Some people think he needs to be reminded of what they
>> would like, but Santa already knows what we need. All we have to know is
>> that Santa Claus is alive and loves us. All we have to do is to make a
>> personal commitment to believe in him. So won't you, too, accept Santa's
>> offer of free gifts? Just kneel down, bow your head, close your eyes, and
>> reverently say to yourself:
>>
>> "Dear Santa Claus. I truly believe in you and want you for my personal
>> friend. Let me humbly accept your gifts, not because I deserve them, but
>> because it is your will that I should receive them. Let me not doubt, but
>> increase my faith; for the harder I believe in you, the more real you
>> become. Amen."
>>
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