Dale Partridge - December 09, 2025


Should Christians Do Santa？


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Length

1 minute

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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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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?