Informative Essay On Satan Claus

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Satan Claus
Parents should not subject children to the black magic known as Santa Claus. The morbidly obese man in the red suit, a slave captor, forces little men to work for his sick desires. Aside from slavery and the ‘pixie dust’ drugs that the elves are forced to endure, Saint Nick commits 132,000,000 felonies every Christmas Eve (How Does Santa Do It?). He breaks into people’s houses in record time to pull off an inverted heist. The general implication that society forces adolescents of America to believe is simply rubbish. They grow up in a world of lies; believing that breaking in and entering are all okay under Jesus’s rule. The disgusting lie told to kids detracts from the true meaning of Christmas. Receiving gifts on this …show more content…

Imagination is brought to kids through many things; however, it is not brought through the ‘Santa Claus’ lie. Imagination is defined as, “The ability to imagine things that are not real” (Imagine). By definition, kids are not using their imagination to believe in Saint Nicholas. They are told that Santa Claus does, in fact, exist, and because of their impressionable minds, they believe it. David Kyle Johnson, Ph.D., explained thought process in a simple way: “The Santa Lie does not actually promote imagination or imaginative play. Imagination involves pretending, and to pretend that something exists, one has to believe that thing doesn’t exist” (Johnson, David K., Ph.D.). Parents should their kids that Santa Claus is myth instead; there would be space for imagination. They could imagine/pretend that this mythical figure is real. Pretending and theoretical thinking is what imagination is based upon. Joy may not be as genuine for the children, but it is the only way to improve the imagination. If adolescents are told it is reality, then it isn’t imagination to them. The only benefit of lying to children is the joy that they find in the myth and that joy lasts until they realize that their parents have been deceiving them for their entire

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