Here’s How To Get A Letter From Santa Claus With A North Pole Postmark

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Kudos to the postal service for a creative way to boost stamp sales. 👍
 
It does worry me though, that a fictitious person used by Coca Cola to promote its product beginning in 1920 :
coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-santa-claus
is treated even by Christians as real, bumping the birth of Christ down with commercialism.
If we present Christ as real, at the same time presenting to our innocent children that Santa Claus is real, how are they supposed to believe us, when one is a lie, the other truth.

There was once a holy Christian Bishop in 4th-century Turkey, (not the North Pole) Saint Nicholas, and it is on him that Santa Claus is modeled, but with no resemblance or relation to the modern myth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

Santa Claus has certainly largely driven Christ out of Christmas in the commercial world…I wonder how far we should go along with it, whilst expecting our children to believe Christ is true, while supporting the belief that Santa Claus is real. We buy into the cultural myths, but how much is it at the expense of spiritual truth?

Of course Saint Nicholas exists, but he died in the fourth century Turkey and undoubtedly now resides in heaven! 🙂

My children were perfectly happy knwing Mummy and Daddy bought their gifts, well, Mummy, anyway, and their warm feelings were directed towards the real persons in their lives, not gifts earned by being good brought by an unrelated mythical figure.

Whether they were good or naughty, and of course they were both, they all received equally lovingly chosen gifts from their parents. Part of the Santa Claus myth is that if children aren’t good they won’t get gifts, not unconditional love.
I know I will probably be shouted down :), but I don’t always think in the cultural bubble, so can’t help having these doubts. It’s easier for some to accept what happens around them, but my mind, and my children’s are more of a questioning nature. Sorry if it offends!
 
sallybutler said:
For those of you with small children/grandchildren

huffingtonpost.com/entry/letters-from-santa-north-pole_us_583cfd13e4b04b66c01b9c3e
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Thank you for this! My kids wrote letters today. My youngest cut hers into a heart and colored it red, purple and green–her favorite colors. It’s so much fun watching them get so excited and preparing for Jesus’s birthday. They love lighting the advent wreath each night and singing, praying and reflecting together as a family.

I believe more in Santa each year. Miracles happen this time of year and yes, Saint Nicholas helps them happen. My kids don’t get presents from mom and dad. Many other families can’t afford to make that happen either. But there are always gifts under the tree. Kids have enjoyed Santa for generations and I am so glad it’s a tradition that carries on year after year. My kids do know that Saint Nicholas is the real Santa, but there is no harm in sharing the joy and excitement of Christmas in fun ways and not just religious ways.
 
bitterhope said:
Thank you for this! My kids wrote letters today. My youngest cut hers into a heart and colored it red, purple and green–her favorite colors. It’s so much fun watching them get so excited and preparing for Jesus’s birthday. They love lighting the advent wreath each night and singing, praying and reflecting together as a family.

I believe more in Santa each year. Miracles happen this time of year and yes, Saint Nicholas helps them happen. My kids don’t get presents from mom and dad. Many other families can’t afford to make that happen either. But there are always gifts under the tree. Kids have enjoyed Santa for generations and I am so glad it’s a tradition that carries on year after year. My kids do know that Saint Nicholas is the real Santa, but there is no harm in sharing the joy and excitement of Christmas in fun ways and not just religious ways.
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I think the idea has been taken from ‘Christkind’ (Jesus child). Here in Switzerland and other German countries, the child Jesus is the one who writes back. (A service of the post).

Here is the history of this old tradition blogs.transparent.com/german/forget-santa-meet-the-christkind/

“Christkind in battle with Santa Claus
Although it has been commercialised over time, the traditional Christkind is still important to many families in Germany, Austria, and other parts of Europe, and there is much less commercialisation of it than there is of Santa Claus. Since the 1990s, the Christkind been fighting with the commercial celebration of Santa, but it remains a much-loved part of European Christmas time. I will leave you with an article I found from 2009 about Austrians campaigning to save the Christkind tradition from Santa Claus!”
 
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