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Primary School children left in tears after Vicar tells them Santa isn't real

Sven Karma

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Reverend going a little off-piste:

Breaking the illusion that Santa is not real is a parental ritual usually handled with painstaking care.
For students at a primary school in Hampshire, however, their childhood wonder was torn to shreds after a vicar told pupils the bearded gift-bearer was made up.
Teary students, angry parents and claims of a “ruined Christmas” followed Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain’s visit to Lee-on-the-Solent junior school this week. The Times reported that he was there to speak to a religious education class about the birth of Jesus but the scope of his talk soon broadened.
He told year 6 students, who are aged between 10 and 11, that Father Christmas was not real, prompting pupils to sob. He also said that their parents bought their presents and ate the biscuits left out for Santa.


Ho-ho-no! Children in tears after vicar tells them Santa is not real

Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain apologises for talk at Hampshire school after angry parents say he ‘ruined Christmas’
www.theguardian.com
 
If you're revealing that to little kids, you're a piece of shit.
 
At the age of ten or eleven they should already be aware that grown ups lie. These kids are either nieve to the point of stupidity or they are being kept in a bubble of make be;ieve by their parents.

They were ten or eleven years old. Kind of time to grow the **** up.
 

Nah. Let kids be kids for awhile. 10 years old is still very young. Being naive doesn't make them stupid - it's a natural part of development. We shouldn't try to speed up their growing up.
 
There's a 7 year gap between daughter and son, so I think he learned the truth at quite a young age.
This guy's sermons must be a hoot.
 
Josie said:
Nah. Let kids be kids for awhile. 10 years old is still very young. Being naive doesn't make them stupid - it's a natural part of development. We shouldn't try to speed up their growing up.
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I think it is actually delaying their growing up. At ten years old someone still believing in santa is either nieve or stupid.
I fail to see how believing in a lie makes you be a kid. You can have just as mch fun with whatever new thing you get whether it comes from a fake being or your parents.
 

You keep saying the Spanish word for “snow” instead of the actual word you want.
 
???? Santa was indeed real............no debate.....
 

Ironically, St. Nicolas is actually venerated as a Saint by the Catholic church, and was, in fact, one of the attendees of the First Council of Nicaea.
 
If only he would have spoken the whole truth and said "Santa, like God is not real."
 
We were all kids but we may not remember the mental aspect being a kid. A child's imagination is different from that of an adult. Pretend can become reality and take on a life of it's own. When you 'kill' Santa you actually kill him.
 
dmpi said:
We were all kids but we may not remember the mental aspect being a kid. A child's imagination is different from that of an adult. Pretend can become reality and take on a life of it's own. When you 'kill' Santa you actually kill him.
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You cannot kill what is not real. As long as the kids get their presents then they will quickly forget that they ever believed in such crap. Christmas is all about moving merchandise. Only some christians bother to give a once a year lip service to another fake being.
 
I was discussing this story with the gf this morning as she's from quite near Lee-on-the-Solent and she was of your opinion that at age 10/11 they should probably already be wised up. What annoyed her was the vicar saying that the parents ate the left-out biscuits. "Did he also tell them they threw the carrots for the reindeer in the bin?"
 

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These are fourth and fifth grade students. The vast majority of them do not believe in Santa by that age and if they do, they're probably needing a dose of reality.

If this were a kindergarten class you'd have a point.
 
Unless you are one of the few christians that still celebrate the religious theft of a pagan ritual. Then all you really have is some fat guy in a red suite telling you when to buy presents for others.
You guys do have strange christmas customs or lack of such. Biscuits and carrots left out is something I only found out about from americans. You do apparently have an ornamental pickle on your tree, that is weird. We do not, but we do have which you do not is christmas crowns and crackers.
 
Me and the gf are British, I haven't a clue about ornamental pickles lol. She did recently buy a Mexican-garbed nutcracker from a German Christmas market, which is not altogether authentic.
 
How would the vicar like it if we told his flock that his god is imaginary as well?
 
Santa is a fun thing. Don't mess it up for little kids. Let their little asshole friends do it.
 

Primary School children left in tears after Vicar tells them Santa isn't real​

Whatever one believes, that was just a plain stupid move.
 
dmpi said:
We were all kids but we may not remember the mental aspect being a kid. A child's imagination is different from that of an adult. Pretend can become reality and take on a life of it's own. When you 'kill' Santa you actually kill him.
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And if you 'sin' Satan will own your soul and you will be tormented for all eternity!
 
Sven Karma said:
Me and the gf are British, I haven't a clue about ornamental pickles lol. She did recently buy a Mexican-garbed nutcracker from a German Christmas market, which is not altogether authentic.
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Apparently they hide a pickle on the tree and the kid who find it gets a extra present. No idea how that custom got started.
 


Ah.......

Poor little greed heads.

I wonder though....is he prepared for when those same kids start asking him about Jesus? I mean, Santa was cool until the pastor told them otherwise. How long before the little bastards figure out the other lie?

Nice going pastor! You done set the stage for me to dispel them of all those myths religion has been teaching them all these years.

Hey Kids. They lied about Santa! And you believe in a guy who rose from the dead????????

Psst! There's no "father" either. It's all bullshit! everything.Democracy too! All a myth kid.
 
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