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   legaleagle48 said, over 5 years ago

   He’s reaching that age. Next thing you know, he’ll be questioning the existence of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
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   Arye Uygur said, over 5 years ago

   “I’m beginning to have my coubts” Isn’t that advanced vocabulary for a kid his age?
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   luckylouie said, over 5 years ago

   My boy stopped believing in Santa and the Easter Bunny when he was about 10. But he still believed in the Tooth Fairy, because he knew he wouldn’t get any money if he didn’t.
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   WebSpider said, over 5 years ago

   Michael, never question those who bring you the loot!
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   cdward said, over 5 years ago

   I’m not sure we ever told our kids there was an Easter Bunny. Never really thought about it. We hid Easter eggs and made baskets - they hunted them and when they were all found asked us to hide them again. They don’t seem too traumatized by never having had an Easter Bunny…
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   wantobe said, over 5 years ago

   That’s where it started for me; no Santa, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy. It was only a short trip from there to no God. Fantasies are nice as a child, but you have to face reality sooner or later.
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   JazzyBella said, over 5 years ago

   Sigh…so much fun to be a kid. The simple things that they have to worry about. Too bad you have to grow up.
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   SCAATY_423 said, over 5 years ago

   Well, wantobe, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” This is not only theology, but common sense: if you can see something and already have it, faith and hope are beside the point.

   But there’s a great difference between faith and fantasy. Based on how little first-hand personal knowledge each of us has about the world we live in, a moment’s reflection shows us that nearly all of what we assume to be true is, in fact, taken on faith — mostly we just take someone else’s word for it — and no one thinks twice about it.

   When you lose faith in things you can’t personally see, hear, touch, etc., and things that you personally can’t understand, you may lose faith in things that are as real and true as your own pulse. And you can end up as a very small person, living in a very small world, to your own loss.
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   lightenup said, over 5 years ago

   When you’re a kid, this is a big issue. Is it okay to doubt the things you believe or will that be the end of all the good stuff? Poor guy.

   I think his vocabulary can be pretty normal if he reads a lot. My oldest has used the word “suppose” a lot since she was 4, a word that I hardly use. She also reads voraciously, and regularly uses words and phrases that surprise me.

   Well said, scaaty!
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    dkram said, over 5 years ago

    As for me, I will go to the Lord’s table friday night, and I will be on the hill sunday at six am.

    \\//_
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    imrobert said, over 5 years ago

    Geez, and here Easter always reminds me of an Easter at our cousin’s house a long time ago. It was raining so the eggs were hidden in the house. Unfortunately, all the eggs were not, um, immediately found …
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    pumaman said, over 5 years ago

    FishStix said: “It takes a lot more faith to NOT believe in a Creator than it takes to believe on one!”

    That is not true and does not make sense.

    and SCAATY said, “When you lose faith in things you can’t personally see, hear, touch, etc., and things that you personally can’t understand, you may lose faith in things that are as real and true as your own pulse. And you can end up as a very small person, living in a very small world, to your own loss.”

    This also doesn’t make sense. These are both platitudes the religious use to make themselves feel better about believing in myths and superstitions.

    My favourite is, “If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything.” The complete opposite is true. If you believe in incredible things with no good evidence, then you’ll fall for just about anything. And already have. Happy Spring!
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    gofinsc said, over 5 years ago

    Fish, Dave only made one comment that I can see, and I’ve read it 3 times to find the statement that creation is a myth or superstition. That’s YOUR inference from what he said. Obviously creation happened, since we are here. It’s the METHOD which seems to be in question. And we could use some insight into the fishing boat theory, which WE did not infer from your comment.

    You just explain to me the reason for earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and Hurricane Katrina, and the Asian tsunami at Christmas, and the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and World Wars I and II, for that matter, and maybe I can understand how Mr. All-Powerful could allow all that. You believe what you want, and I’ll do the same, IF you don’t mind.
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    LFate said, over 5 years ago

    Well said gofinsc
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    puddleglum1066 said, over 5 years ago

    Dave, FishStix: remember Godel’s incompleteness theorem: any non-trivial algebra (that is, any logical system more complex than a simple tautology) must have at least one unprovable assumption. E.g., Euclidean geometry has its six postulates. In other words, using logic for anything more complex than A->A requires some exercise of faith.

    When talking about the origins of the universe, “creationists” and “intelligent design” people make the unprovable assumption that a supreme being of some sort caused things to be the way they are (which leaves us with problems like theodicy). The scientific method makes the unprovable assumption that the universe behaves according to a set of laws that apply consistently across all of time and space (despite the fact that our experience consists of a few thousand years on one minor planet).

    You cannot choose whether to have faith; you can only choose what you have faith in.
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