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Follow-up: For those with children, do you continue the ruse with your own children, or simply tell them it’s you who gives the gifts? Why or why not?

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I don't quite remember if this memory is actually true (my memory has been deteriorating), but I think it was that:

I found out one of my uncles are pretending to be santa (I mean like bruh, they think we kids don't recognize their faces after some disguises). So I just stopped believing in such nonsense. Also decided that deities are almost certainly not real around the same time, and so chrismas technically made me an atheist. I think I was about 8 or 9 at the time.

Edit: I don't have children, and don't plan on it (due to depression), but if I ever had any children, I would never lie like that. That just cause trust issues.

Like I just start speculating that my parents are always plotting against me somehow.

If you are reading this, please dont continue with this nonsense lie, you dont want your kids to turn out to be paranoid and skeptical of everything.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Finding out that Santa wasn’t real was definitely, and undoubtedly, the first domino to fall in my journey towards atheism.

[–] Mok98@feddit.it 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's spelled deities, for a second I thought kid you started calling relatives that are on a diet and don't take it seriously out for their hypocrisy, very funny

Hard to type on phone 😕