Dale Partridge - December 09, 2025


Should Christians Do Santa？


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

213.10655

Word count

284

Sentence count

8

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Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

2

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God commands his people to abstain from lying, specifically not to bear false witness, which is the ninth commandment. Teaching your children that Santa is real, that he's someone they're to believe in, and that they should modify their behavior to earn his favor is not only a deceitful lie, but it's also a concept contrary to the message of Christmas.

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00:00:00.000 Should Christians do Santa Claus? No, and here's why. God commands his people to abstain from 1.00
00:00:04.920 lying, specifically not to bear false witness, which is the ninth commandment. Teaching your
00:00:09.040 children that Santa is real, that he's someone that they're to believe in, and that they should
00:00:12.720 modify their behavior to earn his favor is not only a deceitful lie, but it's also a concept
00:00:17.320 contrary to the message of Christmas. As we know, Santa has become our culture's replacement figure
00:00:22.700 for Christ. The truth is, the modern Santa is a fictitious man whom culture has decorated with
00:00:28.980 christ-like characteristics we've all sung the lyrics he sees you when you're sleeping he knows
00:00:33.780 when you're awake he knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sakes in other 0.55
00:00:38.420 words the santa lie calls us to teach our children to believe in an omniscient and omnipresent judge 0.84
00:00:43.860 of morality who rewards them on the basis of their good works as silly as it may sound christian
00:00:48.900 parents need to be very careful not to divert their young children's attentions from the grace
00:00:53.540 and truth of the Savior to the lies of a character far less significant. Lastly, the Santa lie will
00:00:59.340 break down trust between you and your child. That is, after five to ten years of telling your
00:01:03.720 children to believe in and behave for a man they can't see, will they not apply their broken trust
00:01:09.200 toward the other man that you told them to believe in, behave for, who they also can't see? Jesus
00:01:13.840 Christ. In other words, if you lied to them about Santa, why should they believe that you're not
00:01:18.240 lying to them about Christ?