Proxima Centauri

Marduck! This is what you blasphemously say!

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got ya! was there any mention of this Mr. Claus and his Reindeer and place of residence or modus opperendi BEFORE this fable was written? NO! we have here the origin of this myth!

And Where is the evidence for Jebus before the New Testament was written?

southernhybrid

Ready to send this one back to the basement yet?

Salmon of Doubt

That was a classic Very surreal!

And anyway, Santa can't exist, because he'd need thousands of reindeer to get off the ground, and reindeer flying at that speed would catch on fire. Which is a shame, because my imaginary Santa did more for me than any imaginary God ever did He brought me a Lego pirate island!

Marduk

"And Where is the evidence for Jebus before the New Testament was written?"



BAWAHAHAHA!!!
got ya again!!
This Jebus fellow wasn't born till NT times, Santa was supposed to have existed and been doing his faster than light midnight ride long before the "Night Before Christmas" was written!
Yet where are the sightings? where are the presents? where are the milk and cookies left waiting by the fireplace?
BTW the IPU is purple not pink.

Marduk

"Ready to send this one back to the basement yet?"


HEY! we're trying to have a serious discussion here!

Biff the unclean

One thing you are forgetting Marduck is that they moved Heaven.
Santa and God both lived in inaccessible places so there was no checking to see if they were real or not.
When we actually could check the North Pole for good old Saint Nick it turned up empty.
Heaven used to be, well, in the heavens. Up in the sky where it was impossible for anyone to go.
But, like the North Pole, the sky became a tourist destination. And it was empty of any Gods and Angels and whatnot too. So they moved Heaven to the Spirit Realm. The bible doesn't say it's there but, what the hell, at least no one can check.
We should move Santa too, it's only fair.

Opera Nut

I have more evidence for the existence of the Easter Bunny and Santa than I do for God. Do you know why?

When I got presents at Christmas and Easter, Santa's handwriting and the Easter Bunny's handwriting both looked EXACTLY LIKE Mom's handwriting!! They wrote notes on presents!

Gnome

Not at all. They are very strong reindeer. Obviously they can't be your normal common or garden reindeer, since they can fly. Hence calculations based upon the pulling power of normal reindeers are irrelevant.

As regards calculations about the heat given off by their huge acceleration, these calculations are all just invented by asantaist scientists who make up such nonsense to try and prove santa doesn't exist. They know that if they accepted the TRUTH that santa really exists they'll have to give up their naughtiness and be nice instead. Santa knows though. He sees them when they're sleeping AND knows when they're awake.

(I really think this should go ~~elsewhere~~)

Salmon of Doubt

Lol! Point conceded. Clearly the laws of science can't possibly apply to Santa, I'm so sorry I ever tried to claim otherwise. I repent totally, and I'll start writing my letters to Santa now. Santa, please can I have lots of chocolate, the best Lego set in the world, and a new season of Farscape?

the_cave

One argument I could give against this sort of rhetoric is simply that nobody would seriously make this argument. Therefore I don't have to take it seriously.

Heaven has always been something of a poetic metaphor for referring to a certain state of being. The ancients merely had a more literal understanding of that metaphor, due to their more limited understanding of the world.

And if you're going to move Santa, I'm afraid the Christians are way ahead of you. Nicholas of Myra has been a saint for very many centuries.